| Author |
Wulf, Andrea.
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| Publication |
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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| Edition |
First American Edition. |
| Description |
xix, 473 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Call # |
B HUMBOLDT W |
| Note |
"THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Departure: Emerging ideas. Beginnings -- Imagination and nature: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt -- In search of a destination. -- Part 2. Arrival: Collecting ideas. South America -- The Llanos and the Orinoco -- Across the Andes -- Chimborazo -- Politics and nature: Thomas Jefferson and Humboldt. -- Part 3. Return: Sorting ideas. Europe -- Berlin -- Paris -- Revolutions and nature: Simon Bolivar and Humboldt -- London -- Going in circles: Maladie Centrifuge -- Part 4. Influence: Spreading ideas. Return to Berlin -- Russia -- Evolution and nature: Charles Darwin and Humboldt -- Humbolt's Cosmos -- Poetry, science and nature: Henry David Thoreau and Humboldt -- Part 5. New worlds: Evolving ideas. The greatest man since the deluge -- Man and nature: George Perkins Marsh and Humboldt -- Art, ecology and nature: Ernst Haeckel and Humboldt -- Preservation and nature: John Muir and Humboldt. |
| Subject |
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
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Scientists -- Germany -- Biography.
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Naturalists -- Germany -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780345806291 |
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9780385350662 |
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038535066X |
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