THE PASSAGE TO COSMOS |
Subtitle:
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
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Book Category:
Biography & Autobiography > General
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Author:
Walls, Laura Dassow
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780226871820?
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Price:
USD 35.00
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Publication Year:
2009
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Publisher Info
Carol Kasper,
University of Chicago Press,1427 E. 60th Street,
Chicago ,
Illinois - 60637,USA
Web: www.press.uchicago.edu Inquiry
Book Description
Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole.
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