The invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world
Title:
The invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world
Author:
Wulf, Andrea, author.
ISBN:
9780385350662
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Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2015.
Physical Description:
xix, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles, maps (some color) ; 25 cm
General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book."
Contents:
Part 1. Departure: Emerging ideas. Beginnings -- Imagination and nature: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt -- In search of a destination. -- Part II. Arrival: Collecting ideas. South America -- The Llanos and the Orinoco -- Across the Andes -- Chimborazo -- Politics and nature: Thomas Jefferson and Humboldt. -- Part III. Return: Sorting ideas. Europe -- Berlin -- Paris -- Revolutions and nature: Simon Bolivar and Humboldt -- London -- Going in circles: Maladie Centrifuge -- Part IV. Influence: Spreading ideas. Return to Berlin -- Russia -- Evolution and nature: Charles Darwin and Humboldt -- Humbolt's Cosmos -- Poetry, science and nature: Henry David Thoreau and Humboldt -- Part V. New worlds: Evolving ideas. The greatest man since the deluge -- Man and nature: George Perkins Marsh and Humboldt -- Art, ecology and nature: Ernst Haeckel and Humboldt -- Preservation and nature: John Muir and Humboldt.
Abstract:
A portrait of the German naturalist reveals his ongoing influence on humanity's relationship with the natural world today, discussing such topics as his views on climate change, conservation, and nature as a resource for all life.
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