[Gutenberg 26745] • Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests

[Gutenberg 26745] • Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
Authors
Tschudi, Johann Jakob von
Tags
lima (peru) -- description and travel , peru -- description and travel
Date
2010-04-14T00:00:00+00:00
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0.46 MB
Lang
en
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The Work from which the present Volume is translated consists of extracts from the Author's Journal, accompanied by his recollections and observations. The absence of chronological arrangement will be sufficiently accounted for, when it is explained that the zoological investigations for which the journey was undertaken frequently required the Author to make repeated visits to one particular place or district, or to remain for a considerable time within the narrow circuit of a few miles; and sometimes to tr