The Humboldt Current
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The Humboldt Current: A European Explorer and His American Disciples
By Aaron SachsIf he had been walking past Christian settlements in New England, he might have expressed scorn for the “beautiful meadows and shaded lawns,” but here he saw only rustic charm, enhanced by a slightly wilder and larger landscape than New ...
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The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
By Aaron SachsToday, 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.
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The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
By Aaron Jacob SachsIn 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 ...
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The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
By Aaron SachsToday, 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.
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The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
By Aaron Jacob SachsA masterly intellectual history of the impact of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American culture and science The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) achieved unparalleled fame...