Research Catalog

Title

The invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world / Andrea Wulf.

Author

Wulf, Andrea

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

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Details

Description

xix, 473 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Alternative Title

Alexander von Humboldt's new world

Subjects

• Naturalists > Germany > Biography
• Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
• Scientists > Germany > Biography

Note

• "THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. Departure: Emerging ideas. Beginnings -- Imagination and nature : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt -- In search of a destination. -- Part 2. Arrival: Collecting ideas. South America -- The Llanos and the Orinoco -- Across the Andes -- Chimborazo -- Politics and nature: Thomas Jefferson and Humboldt. -- Part 3. Return: Sorting ideas. Europe -- Berlin -- Paris -- Revolutions and nature : Simon Bolivar and Humboldt -- London -- Going in circles : Maladie Centrifuge -- Part 4. 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 5. 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.

Call Number

JFE 15-8218

ISBN

• 9780385350662
• 038535066X

LCCN

2015017505

OCLC

911240481

Author

Wulf, Andrea, author.

Title

The invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world / Andrea Wulf.

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Edition

First American Edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-8218