New Granada (Classic Reprint): Twenty Months in the Andes: Twenty Months in the Andes (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes

The botanist can not study the predictions of the torrid zone without a strong desire to see with his own eyes the regions of perpetual summer. This desire grows from year to year, but each succeeding year generally binds him closer to local duties and his home. In the case of the author, this centripetal force had not developed itself in due proportion to its antagonist, and a visit to the tropic world was the result.

His attention was directed more particularly to New Granada by the scantiness of botanical information on a region so profusely rich in plants. Not even a catalogue of a collector had appeared since the results of Humboldt's visit, at the beginning of this century, were given to the world.

Nor were the sources of general information on that republic much more copious or recent. Our libraries were found to contain several works on Colombia, written during that terrible struggle with the mother country which terminated, or, rather, took on a chronic form in 1825, but not a volume was to be found which had been written since New Granada had taken her place among the nations. No answer could be found to the inquiry what effect thirty years of liberty had produced on a land that had been till that time sealed up from all the world by Spanish despotism. This void in our geographical information was the determining cause of the journey narrated in this volume.

Thus my task was commenced with a more correct estimate of the need of the undertaking than of its difficulty. A want of reliable facts began to produce its inconveniences even before leaving our shores, impeded the journey at every stage, and afterward still more embarrassed the composition of the narrative.

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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.