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3 entries match Travel & Voyages [K01.400.680] · Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02] · Professions & Education [M01 / N02]

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1853 CE

#7445

A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native tribes and observations on the climate, geology and natural history of the Amazon Valley.

WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1590 CE

#2244

Historia natural y moral de las Indias.

ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600)
ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600)

One of the earliest detailed and realistic descriptions of the New World. Acosta hypothesized that the indigenous peoples of Latin America had migrated from Asia. He also divided the native peoples into three barbaria…

1841 CE–1854 CE

#11902

Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, exécuté...pendant...1837-1840, sous le commandement de M. J. DUMONT D'URVILLE... publié... sour la direction supérieure de M. [C. H.] Jacquinot, &c. 23 vols. in 22.

DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César (1790 – 1842)
DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César (1790 – 1842) DUMOUTIER, Pierre-Marie-Alexandre (1797 – 1873) BLANCHARD, Charles Émile (1819 – 1900) JACQUINOT, Charles Hector (1796 – 1879) HOMBRON, Jacques Bernard (1798 – 1852) PUCHERAN, Jacques (1817 – 1895) GUICHENOT, Antoine Alphonse (1809 – 1876)
LUCAS, H.
LUCAS, H.
ROUSSEAU, L.
ROUSSEAU, L. MONTAGNE, Jean Pierre François Camille (1784 – 1866)
DECAISNE, Joseph (1807 – 1882)
DECAISNE, Joseph (1807 – 1882) GRANGE, J. VINCENDON-DUMOULIN, Clément Adrien (1811 – 1858) COUPVENT-DESBOIS, Aimé Auguste Élie (1814 – 1892)

In 1836 King Louis-Philippe, enthusiastic for Southern Hemisphere exploration, sponsored Dumont d'Urville's plan for a circumnavigation focusing on the South Seas. D'Urville had already distinguished himself on two Pa…