the Humboldt Current

Humboldt talks to one of the indigenous people in Turbaco (today’s Columbia) en route to Bogotá.

Humboldt’s gift

6 February 2016 9:00 am

The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt was once the most famous man in Europe bar Napoleon. And if you judge…

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