The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845-1848
by
Karl Bartolomeus Heller
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
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. He passed through the Caribbean, lived for a time in the mountains of Veracruz, and journeyed to Mexico City through the...