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The Humboldt current : nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism
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The Humboldt current : nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism

Author: Aaron Sachs
Publisher: New York : Viking, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Alexander von Humboldt
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Aaron Sachs
ISBN: 0670037753 9780670037759
OCLC Number: 62325168
Description: xii, 496 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: East : Humboldt and the influence of Europe -- South : J.N. Reynolds and the "more comprehensive promise" of the Antarctic -- West : Clarence King's experience of the frontier -- North : George Wallace Melville and John Muir in extremis.
Responsibility: Aaron Sachs.
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