フンボルト・中南米の風景序説 : 探検から調査への架け橋(<特集>東西学術研究所シンポジウム:『近代との出会い-風景からのアプローチ』)

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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), German great naturalist cum geographer, called Father of modern geography, went on an expedition of tropical Spanish colonies in Latin America, especially Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Cuba in 1799-1804 under the support of Spanish Crown Family. This paper aims to analyze his and accompanied botanist Bonpland's travelogues "Relation historique du Voyage aux Regions equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent". These enormous travelogues had published in three parts ; 1814, 1819, 1825 separately. The last volume was published a quarter of a century after his expeditions! In this connection, his writing style was not always chronologically, systematically and descriptively. I dare to say, if anything, amalgam of travel report, scientific interpretation, and comparative essay on the earth. He, of course, was conscious of writing his travelogues by filling his own collected observed scientific data during his travel, but in the end, his writings were mixed with some romanticism and a taste of idiographic harmony with nature and beauty. His landscape image was supported or enforced by scientific data, at least he tired, however, to put it more correctly, these were by no means scientific or academic reports in modern context. On the other hand, this feature has been fascinating many readers even in contemporary time.
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