Abstract
In his day, Alexander von Humboldt was hugely famed for the journey he made between 1799 and 1804 with the botanist Bonpland through the mainland tropics of America and the Caribbean. The account he gave of it, the 30-volume Voyages aux régions équinoxiale du Nouveau Continent, published over as many years, is interestingly shaped by the Atlas pittoresque of 1810, which comprises volumes XV and XVI. Better known under the title Vues des Cordillères et monuments indigènes de l’Amérique, this latter text consists of 69 engraved plates, several in colour, balanced between the terms of the title, on which the author offers commentaries. Contrasted, the two statements (Voyages and Vues) reveal much about Humboldt's ambitions and strategies as a travel writer, about his changing sense of the continent's cultural geography and even the general direction of his own five-year journey.
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