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The Humboldt current : a European explorer and his American disciples
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- Creator
- Aaron Sachs
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- Language
- English
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007
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- xii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780199215195, 0199215197
- OCLC
- ocm74522263
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-472) and index.
- Prologue: Humboldt in America: 1804-2004; The Chain of Connection; Excursion-Exile: Napoleon's France; PART ONE -- EAST; Humboldt and the Influence of Europe; Personal Narrative of a Journey: Radical Romanticism; Cosmos: Unification Ecology; Excursion-Eureka: The Death of Edgar Allan Poe; PART TWO- SOUTH; J.N. Reynolds and the "More Comprehensive Promise" of the Antarctic; "Rough Notes of Rough Adventures": Exploration for Exploration's Sake; "Mocha-Dick": The Value of Mental Expansion; Excursion-Watersheds: 1859-1862; PART THREE -- WEST; Clarence King's Experience of the Frontier; Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada: The Art of Self-Exposure; "Catastrophism and the Evolution of Environment": A Science of Humility; Excursion-Yreka: Just North of Mount Shasta; PART FOUR -- NORTH; George Wallace Melville and John Muir in Extremis; In the Lena Delta: Arctic Tragedy and American Imperialism; The Cruise of the Corwin: Nature, Natives, Nation; Excursion-Home: The Harriman Expedition; The Grounding of American Environmentalism; Epilogue: Humboldt on Chimborazo; Chronology; Notes; Bibliography; Index