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Index
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Maps
Author’s Note
Prologue
Part I. Departure: Emerging Ideas
1. Beginnings
2. Imagination and Nature: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt
3. In Search of a Destination
Part II. Arrival: Collecting Ideas
4. South America
5. The Llanos and the Orinoco
6. Across the Andes
7. Chimborazo
8. Politics and Nature: Thomas Jefferson and Humboldt
Part III. Return: Sorting Ideas
9. Europe
10. Berlin
11. Paris
12. Revolutions and Nature: Simón Bolívar and Humboldt
13. London
14. Going in Circles: Maladie Centrifuge
Part IV. Influence: Spreading Ideas
15. Return to Berlin
16. Russia
17. Evolution and Nature: Charles Darwin and Humboldt
18. Humboldt’s Cosmos
19. Poetry, Science and Nature: Henry David Thoreau and Humboldt
Part V. New Worlds: Evolving Ideas
20. The Greatest Man Since the Deluge
21. Man and Nature: George Perkins Marsh and Humboldt
22. Art, Ecology and Nature: Ernst Haeckel and Humboldt
23. Preservation and Nature: John Muir and Humboldt
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Illustration Credits
Notes
A Note on Humboldt’s Publications
Sources and Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
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