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Author Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob)

Title The Humboldt current : nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism / Aaron Sachs.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2006.

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 Moore Stacks  Q143.H9 S24 2006    Available  ---
Description xii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-472) and index.
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.
Subject Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
Scientists -- Germany -- Biography.
Scientists.
Germany.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Scientific expeditions -- History -- 19th century.
Scientific expeditions.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Environmentalism -- History.
Environmentalism.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0670037753
Standard No. 9780670037759