Jaguars and Electric Eels (Penguin Great Journeys)

By Alexander von Humboldt

Book Overview

Inspired by Penguin?s innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the most incredible tours, voyages, treks, expeditions, and travels ever written?from Isabella Bird?s exaltation in the dangers of grizzlies, rattlesnakes, and cowboys in the Rocky Mountains to Marco Polo?s mystified reports of a giant bird that eats elephants during his voyage along the coasts of India. Each beautifully packaged volume offers a way to see the world anew, to rediscover great civilizations and legends, vast deserts and unspoiled mountain ranges, unusual flora and strange new creatures, and much more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141032065
• ISBN13: 9780141032061
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 0.3" x 4.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

The first inspired Deep Ecology travelog

This condensed version of 4 years of bush-whaking thru jungles of South & central America by first Euro scientist to observe it. Bv Humboldt was the Euro genius discoverer & author of many books of his travels 1799-1804 of wild native Ecology that Darwin ripped off for his 'Evolution' theory, while Humboldt promoted natural science in Euro for decades while righting his observations of new raw nature patterns that became natural ECOLOGY after "The healthy Hunza" & "Organic Farming & gardening" by Rodale; & 'Earth in Upheaval' 1950s by Velikovsky; & Sea Around Us & Silent Spring - Carson. I'm still grateful they pioneered our Nature recording their inspired awareness we need more now than ever in this toxic world bioregions.