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Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob)

Title The Humboldt current : nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism / Aaron Sachs.

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New York : Viking, 2006.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	508 H881Bs 2006	---	Available
Axe Special Collections Baron	508 H881Bs 2006	---	Lib Use Only

Description	xii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-472) and index.
Contents	East : Humboldt and the influence of Europe -- South : J.N. Reynolds and the "more comprehensive promise" of the Antarctic -- West : Clarence King's experience of the frontier -- North : George Wallace Melville and John Muir in extremis.
Subject	Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
	Scientists -- Germany -- Biography.
	Scientific expeditions -- History -- 19th century.
	Environmentalism -- History.
ISBN	0670037753
	9780670037759