Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator /
It will be within the knowledge of most of those who take up this book that it has long been much debated whether human life can be sustained at great altitudes above the level of the sea in such a manner as will permit of the accomplishment of useful work. The most opposite statements and opinions...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
C. Scribner's Sons,
1892.
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| Series: | Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Expeditions and discoveries.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | It will be within the knowledge of most of those who take up this book that it has long been much debated whether human life can be sustained at great altitudes above the level of the sea in such a manner as will permit of the accomplishment of useful work. The most opposite statements and opinions have been advanced concerning this matter. The extremes range from saying that fatal results may occur, and have occurred, from some obscure cause, at comparatively moderate elevations, down to that no effects whatever have been experienced at the greatest heights which have been attained. Allegations of the latter class may be set aside for the present, for the evidence is overwhelming that, from 14,000 feet above the level of the sea and upwards, serious inconveniences have occurred; that prostration (amounting in the more extreme cases to incapacitation) has been experienced; and that, in some instances, perhaps, even death has resulted through some cause which operates at great elevations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 456 pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates (2)) : illustrations, maps |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |