In 1832, William MacGillivray published this abridged version of the explorer Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804. This edition covers Humboldt's trip to South America together with his later expeditions to the Ural Mountains and Caspian Sea.
An abridged English version of naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's account of his famous explorations of Central and South America.