| The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism Contributor(s): Sachs, Aaron (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143111922 ISBN-13: 9780143111924 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: Cornell University history and American studies professor Aaron Sachs offers a masterly intellectual history of the impact of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American culture and science. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - History | United States - 19th Century - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 5.56" W x 8.36" (1.00 lbs) 512 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
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| Publisher Description: A masterly and beautifully written account of the impact of Alexander von Humboldt on nineteenth-century American history and culture The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he and his enormous legacy to American thought are virtually unknown. In The Humboldt Current, Aaron Sachs traces Humboldt's pervasive influence on American history through examining the work of four explorers--J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace, and John Muir--who embraced Humboldt's idea of a chain of connection uniting all peoples and all environments. A skillful blend of narrative and interpretation that also discusses Humboldt's influence on Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Melville, and Poe, The Humboldt Current offers a colorful, passionate, and superbly written reinterpretation of nineteenth-century American history. |