The invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385350679
- ISBN: 038535066X
- ISBN: 9780385350662
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Physical Description:
xix, 473 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
General Note: | "THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK"--T.p. verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I. Departure : emerging ideas. Beginnings ; Imagination and nature : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt ; In search of a destination -- Part II. Arrival : collecting ideas. South America ; The llanos and the Orinoco ; Across the Andes ; Chimborazo ; Politics and nature : Thomas Jefferson and Humboldt -- Part III. Return : sorting Ideas. Europe ; Berlin ; Paris ; Revolutions and nature : Simón Bolívar and Humboldt ; London ; Going in circles : maladie centrifuge -- Part IV. Influence : spreading ideas. Return to Berlin ; Russia ; Evolution and nature : Charles Darwin and Humboldt ; Humboldt's Cosmos ; Poetry, science and nature : Henry David Thoreau and Humboldt -- Part V. New worlds : evolving ideas. The greatest man since the deluge ; Man and nature : George Perkins Marsh and Humboldt ; Art, ecology and nature : Ernst Haeckel and Humboldt ; Preservation and nature : John Muir and Humboldt. |
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Subject: | Humboldt, Alexander von 1769-1859 Scientists Germany Biography Naturalists Germany Biography Humboldt, Alexander von 1769-1859 |
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