The Humboldt Current : A European explorer and his American disciples

Name: The Humboldt Current
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199215195
Price: 10300 KES
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ISBN: 9780199215195

by Aaron Sachs

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0199215197

ISBN-13 9780199215195

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 22nd, 2007

Print length 508 Pages

Weight 942 grams

Dimensions 24.40 x 16.60 x 3.40 cms

Product Classification: History of science Popular science Ecological science, the Biosphere Environmentalist thought & ideology

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Alexander von Humboldt was a towering figure of his time - scientist, explorer, and polymath, imbued with Enlightenment ideas - and he left an impact on the intellectual life of 19th century America. This work traces Humboldt's legacy by focusing not only on the man himself but on the lives of other individuals who took their lead from him.

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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