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The Humboldt current : nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism / Aaron Sachs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
- Humboldt, Alexander von.
- Scientists--Germany--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Scientific expeditions.
- History.
- Germany.
- Scientific expeditions--History--19th century.
- Environmentalism--History.
- Environmentalism.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2006.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-472) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0670037753
- OCLC:
- 62325168
- Publisher Number:
- 9780670037759
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