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|aWulf, Andrea,|eauthor
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|aThe invention of nature :|bAlexander von Humboldt's new world /|cAndrea Wulf
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|aFirst American Edition
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|aNew York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2015
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|axix, 473 pages :|billustrations (some color), maps ;|c25 cm
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|a"THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK"--T.p. verso.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aPart 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.
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|aHumboldt, Alexander von,|d1769-1859.
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|aScientists|zGermany|vBiography.
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