The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism by Aaron Sachs

The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism

Aaron Sachs

496 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced
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A masterly intellectual history of the impact of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American culture and science The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, his e...

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