03289nam 2200637Ia 450 991079135140332120230725015456.00-8047-7427-710.1515/9780804774277(CKB)2560000000011467(EBL)537848(OCoLC)638861373(SSID)ssj0000422076(PQKBManifestationID)11295918(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422076(PQKBWorkID)10416114(PQKB)10710563(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127731(MiAaPQ)EBC537848(DE-B1597)564196(DE-B1597)9780804774277(Au-PeEL)EBL537848(CaPaEBR)ebr10392269(OCoLC)1178769645(EXLCZ)99256000000001146720091201d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA life in shadow[electronic resource] Aimé Bonpland in southern South America, 1817-1858 /Stephen BellStanford, CA Stanford University Pressc20101 online resource (338 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-5260-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Return to the Americas -- 2. Prisoner in Paraguay -- 3. From Paraguay to Pago Largo -- 4. Somber Years of Civil War -- 5. The Challenges of Peace -- 6. Journey’s End -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his own research farther south. A Life in Shadow accounts for the entire span of Bonpland's remarkable and diverse career in South America—in Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil—based on extensive archival material. The study reconnects Bonpland's divided records in Europe and South America and delves into his studies of rural resources in interior regions of South America, including experimental cultivation techniques. This is a fascinating account of a man—a doctor, farmer, rancher, scientific explorer, and political conspirator—who interacted in many revealing ways with the evolving societies and institutions of South America.BotanistsSouth AmericaBiographyNaturalistsSouth AmericaBiographyFrenchSouth AmericaBiographySouth AmericaHistory19th centuryBotanistsNaturalistsFrench982/.03092BBell Stephen1956-1581204MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791351403321A life in shadow3862607UNINA