[PDF] Travels Amongst The Great Andes Of The Equator Classic Reprint eBook

Author : Edward Whymper
Publisher : London: J. Murray
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Andes
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-- ---Supplementary appendix; by Edward Whymper. London, J. Murray, 1891. 147 p. illus. 24 cm.

Author : Edward Whymper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781528490160

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Excerpt from Travels Amongst the Great Andes, of the Equator The most opposite statements and opinions have been advanced concerning this matter. The extremes range from saying that fatal results may occur, and have occurred, from some obscure cause, at comparatively moderate elevations, down to that no effects whatever have been experienced at the greatest heights which have been attained. Allegations of the latter class may be set aside for the present, for the evidence is overwhelming that, from 14 000 feet above the level of the sea and upwards, serious inconveniences have occurred; that prostration (amounting in the more extreme cases to incapacitation) has been experienced; and that, in some instances, perhaps, even death has resulted through some cause which operates at great elevations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Edward Whymper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780331758580

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Excerpt from Supplementary Appendix to Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator We accordingly pushed rapidly across the lower country both in going to and returning from the interior 51 and only acquired, whilst passing through it, such objects as came readily to hand. In respect to the interior, it should be noted (1) that the exigencies of travel often caused us to traverse considerable stretches of country without attempting to collect at all 5 (2) that, at such places as we stopped at, our researches never even approached an exhaustive character and (3) that the more minute species were rejected, owing to the known dith culty of inducing specialists to undertake their examination. Bearing these various points in mind, it appears to me improbable that in the interior (say, in the areas more elevated than 8000 feet) we obtained as much as one-tenth of the number of species which might have been collected by a person who could have given his whole time and atten tion to zoological research. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Edward Whymper
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2013-06
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ISBN : 9781314466195

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Author : Edward 1840-1911 Whymper
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781360252087

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