Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.3: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.3, credited to Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé Bonpland, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.3 by Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé Bonpland. (Translated by Thomasina Ross.) Read in English by Gail Timmerman Vaughan Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland in South and Central America, and the Caribbean. In this volume, they start at Angostura, the capital at that time of Spanish Guiana, where both required recuperation from serious febrile disease contracted on their journey on the Orinoco. Once well, they recommenced their travels, returning across Spanish Guiana and Venezuela to the coastal settlement of Nueva Barcelona, from whence they departed for Cuba and further travels in the Caribbean. As in the previous volumes, von Humboldt describes their travel with a narrative that is expressively descriptive of people, plants, animals and geology. Volume 3 also discusses slavery in Cuba and provides a geological description of South America north of the Amazon and east of the northern region of the Andes. (summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.3
• Author credits: Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé Bonpland
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 44
• Listed recording duration: 18:00:09

Catalogue topics

• South America
• botany
• Cuba
• geography

Opening tracks: first 24 of 44

1. 01 - Chapter 3.25, Part 1 — 27:03
2. 02 - Chapter 3.25, Part 2 — 21:38
3. 03 - Chapter 3.25, Part 3 — 26:02
4. 04 - Chapter 3.25, Part 4 — 27:44
5. 05 - Chapter 3.25, Part 5 — 21:14
6. 06 - Chapter 3.25, Part 6 — 32:12
7. 07 - Chapter 3.25, Part 7 — 32:12
8. 08 - Chapter 3.26, Part 1 — 24:40
9. 09 - Chapter 3.26, Part 2 — 28:26
10. 10 - Chapter 3.26, Part 3 — 21:13
11. 11 - Chapter 3.26, Part 4 — 26:35
12. 12 - Chapter 3.26, Part 5 — 27:43
13. 13 - Chapter 3.27, Part 1 — 26:18
14. 14 - Chapter 3.27, Part 2 — 25:39
15. 15 - Chapter 3.27, Part 3 — 13:38
16. 16 - Chapter 3.28 — 16:28
17. 17 - Chapter 3.29, Part 1 — 22:17
18. 18 - Chapter 3.29, Part 2 — 24:44
19. 19 - Chapter 3.29, Part 3 — 25:09
20. 20 - Chapter 3.29, Part 4 — 26:30
21. 21 - Chapter 3.29, Part 5 — 21:51
22. 22 - Chapter 3.30, Part 1 — 21:59
23. 23 - Chapter 3.30, Part 2 — 32:21
24. 24 - Chapter 3.30, Part 3 — 22:44

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