The Humboldt current
Subtitle: nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism
By: Aaron Sachs
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780670037759
Subjects: Expedições científicas (história); Viagens e explorações (história); Scientific expeditions; Ökologische Bewegung; Environmentalism; Biography; Scientists; Von; Naturschutz; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-472) and index.
Table of contents: title: East : Humboldt and the influence of Europe; title: South : J.N. Reynolds and the "more comprehensive promise" of the Antarctic; title: West : Clarence King's experience of the frontier; title: North : George Wallace Melville and John Muir in extremis.