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The Humboldt Current - A European explorer and his American disciples (Hardcover)
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The Humboldt Current - A European explorer and his American disciples (Hardcover)
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While everyone has heard of the 'Humboldt Current', few know
anything of the man after whom it was named. Yet Alexander von
Humboldt was a towering figure of his time - scientist, explorer,
and polymath, imbued with Enlightenment ideas - and he left a
profound impact on the intellectual life of 19th century America.
Aaron Sachs' colourful intellectual history rescues Humboldt from
obscurity, and reveals the impact of a single European on both
American thought and the environmental movement. Aaron Sachs traces
Humboldt's legacy by focusing not only on the man himself but on
the lives of other remarkable individuals who took their lead from
him - explorers of the American mid-West, alienated Romantics,
seminal American writers and artists, who together laid the
groundwork for the great ecological tradition in 19th century
America.
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