The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America by Laura Dassow Walls

The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

Laura Dassow Walls

424 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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