Ulli Kulke

Alexander von Humboldt
Vogage to South America

Alexander von Humboldt is considered as one of the last renaissance man. This illustrated books tells about his legendary voyage to South America from 1799 to 1804. The confrontation of recent photographs with original illustrations, maps, facsimiles and excerpts from his diaries truely shows Humboldt's extraordinary accomplisments and manifests his character. Even today we marvel at the nearly superhuman challenges he had to master and at his epoch making perceptions.