Northern Cape: caviar and champagne at the northernmost point of Europe
Where ice is a legend
Alfonso Polvorinos
10 articles
The great African migration and Joubert
Once again the spectacle of the wildebeest crossing the river, again the lurking crocodiles, again one of the most exciting major wildlife documentaries in store. And there beside them, positioned our car.
The Galapagos Islands were born in a village in Soria
A Spanish Berlanga de Duero, Soria, discovered the Galapagos Islands for a total calm wind took his boat to this natural paradise. In the collegiate church of the Spanish population an alligator hanging upside down remember the feat of his countryman.
Humboldt and the Teide
(...) before crossing the Atlantic, Humboldt made a scale that changed his life and laid the foundation, inter alia, of modern phytogeography. It was in Tenerife, where he arrived on 19 June 1799.
The departure of the Spanish corvette Pizarro, who should bring to America.
La Gomera: the well and last prayers of Christopher Columbus
(...) In the capital gomera, San Sebastián, are places (Today monuments) linked to Columbian history such as the Torre del Conde, the church in which the Admiral prayed one last time before leaving, the house-museum of Columbus or the Pozo de la Aguada (where it supplied water for the journey). A sign at the well says "this water was baptized America, year 1492.
Lucien Briet and "God gun" Ordesa
And these words were not uttered by an Aragonese, although it could have been,, even for a Spanish. Out of the mouth of a Frenchman, coming from the neighboring valley and nothing Gavarnie setting foot for the first time in the valley (1881) pleaded deep love Ordesa Valley. From that moment, Lucien Briet Parisian became a frequent visitor to the valley, you wrote about different works.
Chitwan: the park where "The Jungle Book" was inspired
Joseph Rudyard Kipling, British poet and writer, Born in Bombay (India) in 1865. and died in London in 1936. He lived in times of war and not in vain became famous among his countrymen for poems and stories devoted to the British troops in India.
Salto Angel, Venezuela: King of heaven and the quest for gold
The 9 October 1937 la avioneta de James Crawford Angel -Jimmy Angel- touched the top of Auyan-tepui. It was the first time a human being trampled on Auyán. The landing gear broke in so daring maneuver and the aircraft was unfit to take off. There was no alternative, had to go on foot. Almost half a month took the browser Jimmy Angel and his fellow expedition to find the only way down and down from the top of Auyan-tepui to camp Uruyén, where he hoped Felix Cardona. Only had food for a week. But this story begins a few years ago ...
Riding of the Queen of Africa
(...) The African Queen, the truth, never sailed these waters. He did in Eastern Africa. That was his role skippered by Charlie Allnut to supply the villages of East Africa at the beginning of the First World War (...). When a film helps you discover a continent.
Schaller, twentieth-century naturalist
Many national parks and protected areas as far away as the Amazon, Nepal and China are due to the work of George B German. Schaller. His life is part of the natural history of this planet. Seguimos en VaP diseccionando la "historia verde".
