The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
by By Sachs, Aaron
Category: Science , History

An intellectual history of the contributions of the nineteenth-century explorer to American culture and science seeks to restore him from obscurity and reveals his pivotal role in the careers of J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace Melville, and John Muir. 25,000 first printing.