Karl Bartolomeus Heller

Broschiertes Buch

Alone in Mexico

The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845-1848

Herausgeber: Rugeley, Terry / Übersetzer: Rugeley, Terry

Beschreibung

This volume is the first-ever English translation of the memoirs of Karl Heller, a twenty-year-old aspiring Austrian botanist who traveled to Mexico in 1845 to collect specimens.

Autor

Karl Bartholomaeus Heller (1824-1880) was an Austrian botanist and naturalist who explored Mexico in 1845-48 and published this memoir. Born in Moravia, Heller was a professor at the Theresianum in Vienna. Among Heller's later works is his defense of Darwinism, Darwin und der Darwinismus, 1869. Terry Rugeley is professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and author of Yucatán's Maya Peasantry of the Caste War, Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southwest Mexico, 1800-1876, and Maya Wars: Ethnographic Accounts from 19th Century Yucatán.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• First Edition, First edition
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 168mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780817354565
• ISBN-10: 0817354565
• Artikelnr.: 22961573