The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism The Protestant Cemetery In Rome

The Protestant Cemetery In Rome

but what they really came for was to see and be seen on the grand piazzas of the magnificent

dock buildings

and vintage postcards

The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism The Protestant Cemetery In RomeThe naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he and his enormous legacy to American thought are virtually unknown. In The Humboldt Current, Aaron Sachs traces Humboldt's pervasive influence on American history through examining the work of four explorersJ. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace, and John Muirwho embraced Humboldt's idea of a "chain of connection" uniting