Alexander von Humboldt - Part 3 - The Andes Mountains

The Explorers Podcast

Matt Breen

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Alexander von Humboldt returns to South America, traveling into the jungles to the city of Bogota, and then over the Andes Mountains. Here he will do extensive studies on volcanoes, and crystallize ideas that will be critical to his idea of Naturgemälde. Curious Worldview Podcast: https://atlasgeographica.com/explorers-podcast/ The Explorers Podcast is part of the Airwave Media Network: www.airwavemedia.com Interested in advertising on the Explorers Podcast? Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an air the explorers podcast. Today is part three in our series on
0:20.8	Alexander von Humboldt. There are two things I want to mention before we get going.
0:25.5	Number one is that there is a map of Humboldt's journey on the website explorerspogest.
0:31.0	And number two is unrelated to this series but I wanted to share it with you.
0:34.9	I recently did a long interview with Ryan Faulkner Hoag, who runs the website Atlas Geographica.com.
0:41.4	He also has a podcast called The Curious Worldview Podcast. graphical podcast is just a part of all the stuff that he does. Ryan was great and we talked a long time
0:54.4	about a bunch of different things. We of course talked about explorers, but there's also a lot
0:59.1	about the creative side of making the podcast, the history of the I put a link to a show in the notes of this podcast and you can find a link on my
1:16.2	own website explorers podcast.com.
1:19.3	Alrighty that is it for notes let's get rolling. Last time we left Alexander von Humboldt in
1:24.6	Kumana Venezuela. He had just completed his first great expedition, thousands of
1:29.1	miles through the jungles of Venezuela and up the Orinoco River to the Casa Kiire. Here he mapped and charted the
1:35.2	canal that connects the Orinoco River to the Amazon Basin. At the same time, Humboldt and his companion
1:41.0	Embin had documented the world of the region.
1:44.5	This included the plants, animals, geography, people, history, and much, much more.
1:49.3	It was all helping Humboldt develop his own theories.
1:52.4	This included the ideas of the continental drift, the food chain,
1:55.7	human-induced climate change, and more. It was the concept that everything in the world was
2:00.2	interwoven and ever-evolving. Or as Humboldt called it, an impression of the whole. So in Kumbata, Humboldt and Bonpland recovered and recuperated from their long expedition into the South American interior. At the same time, they began to organize the thousands of specimens they had collected.
2:16.0	They were given the chance to send some of these things back to Paris
2:19.0	when a French naval squadron arrived in Kumana.
2:22.0	Humboldt handed off some items, including his menagerie of animals, which consisted of monkeys, macaws, parrots, and other birds.
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