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

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

Sachs, Aaron

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19th Century United States HistoryEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0143111922
ISBN13: 9780143111924
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Aug 1 2007
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
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.

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