Andes

✍ Scribed by Michael Jacobs

• Publisher: Counterpoint Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 886 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, Andes.
• ISBN: 1582438811

✦ Synopsis

Title Page; Dedication; NOTE; Foreword; PART ONE -- THE VIEW FROM AFAR; 1 -- HOW IT ALL BEGAN; 2 -- CABINETS OF CURIOSITIES; PART TWO -- THE TROPICS; 3 -- HOTEL HUMBOLDT; 4 -- DISTANT MOUNTAINS; 5 -- BOLÍVAR'S DREAM; 6 -- BOLÍVAR, MIRROR OF THE ANDES; 7 -- NEVADO THE DOG; 8 -- DELIRIUM; 9 -- THE CONSOLATION OF PLANTS; 10 -- TO THE ENCHANTED LAKE; PART THREE -- THE CENTRE; 11 -- JOURNEYS TO THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD; 12 -- ANDEAN BAROQUE; 13 -- CLIMBING THE VOLCANOES; 14 -- LOST TREASURES; 15 -- HEART OF THE ANDES; 16 -- ANCIENT ROADS; 17 -- OMENS; 18 -- EXTREME ADVERSITIES; 19 -- AND THE MOUNTAINS CAME TO THE CITY.;For centuries, the Andes have caught the imagination of travelers, inspiring fear and wonder. The groundbreaking scientist Alexander von Humboldt claimed that "everything here is grander and more majestic than in the Swiss Alps, the Pyrenees, the Carpathians, the Apennines, and all other mountains I have known." Rivaled in height only by the Himalayas and stretching more than 4,500 miles, the sheer immensity of the Andes is matched by its concentration of radically contrasting scenery and climates, and the rich and diverse cultures of the people who live there. In this remarkable book, travel.

✦ Subjects

Andes