Alexander von Humboldt by Kellner, L.

Views of nature / by Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859

Humboldt; the life and times of Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859. by De Terra, Helmut, 1900-

Address delivered on the centennial anniversary of the birth of Alexander von Humboldt under the auspices of the Boston Society of Natural History, by Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

The invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world / by Wulf, Andrea

Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America, during the years 1799-1804, by Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859

The passage to Cosmos : Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America / by Walls, Laura Dassow

Essai sur la géographie des plantes / by Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859

Empiricism and geographical thought : from Francis Bacon to Alexander von Humboldt / by Bowen, Margarita

Address Delivered On the Centennial Anniversary Of the Birth Of Alexander Von Humboldt, Under the Auspices Of the Boston Society Of Natural History, By Louis Agassiz.... by Howe, Julia Ward

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Denken und Umdenken : zu Werk u. Wirkung von Werner Heisenberg /

Deutschland von aussen : der andere Blick 50 Jahre danach /

Diary of a journey from the Mississippi to the coasts of the Pacific with a United States Government expedition. by Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905

The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity / by Ochoa, John A. 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Education and entropy in Bernal D⩡z del Castillo's War to stop time -- Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, albureros, and other shouters -- Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico : cultural allegory, and the limits of vision -- Jos⥠Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure -- The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail) -- Guillermo G⯭ez-Pe䮡 : bordering on madness and performing liminality -- General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.…”

The river sea : the Amazon in history, myth, and legend : a story of discovery, exploration, and exploitation / by De Bruhl, Marshall

Table of Contents: “…The river sea : from the Andes to the Atlantic -- The Incas : the rise and fall of the empire of the sun -- The search for El Dorado : gold, spices, and blood -- Conquistadors for Christ : the holy fathers and the indigenous peoples -- The great powers in the Amazon basin : the struggle for control -- Nature's grand laboratory : European science discovers the Amazon -- The Peruvian Evangeline : the journey of María Isabel de Jesus Gramesón y Godin -- "I must find out about the unity of nature" : the explorations of Alexander von Humboldt -- Three eminent Victorians in the "garden of the world" : Wallace, Bates, and Spruce explore the Amazon -- The great rubber boom : an Amazonian gilded age -- Exploitation, despoliation, or conservation : the river sea in the new millennium.…”

All possible worlds : a history of geographical ideas / by Martin, Geoffrey J.

Table of Contents: “…A field of study called geography -- The beginnings of classical geography -- Geography in the middle ages -- The age of exploration -- The impact of discoveries -- An end and a beginning : Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Ritter -- What was new? -- The new geography in Germany -- The new geography in France -- The new geography in Great Britain -- The new geography in Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Commonweath of Independent States -- The new geography in Canada -- The new geography in Sweden -- The new geography in Japan -- The new geography in the United States before World War I -- The new geography in the United States : World War I to midcentury -- The new geography in the United States : midcentury to the present -- Applied geography -- New methods of observation and analysis -- Innovation and tradition.…”

The great explorers /

Table of Contents: “…John Philby -- Ralph Bagnold -- Wilfred Thesiger -- Life on earth -- Alexander von Humboldt -- Marianne North -- Alfred Russel Wallace -- Frank Kingdon-Ward -- New Frontiers -- Gino Watkins -- Yuri Gagarin -- Jacques-Yves Cousteau -- Andrew James Eavis.…”

Geography and enlightenment /

Table of Contents: “…Humboldt's visual thinking / Anne Marie Claire Godlewska -- On being Perseus: new knowledge, dislocation, and enlightenment exploration / Dorinda Outram -- Gaps in knowledge: the geography of human reason / Paul Carter -- A geography of enlightenment: the critical reception of Alexander von Humboldt's Mexico work / Nicolaas Rupke -- Enlightenment, improvement, and the geographies of horticulture in later Georgian England / Stephen Daniels, Susanne Seymour, and Charles Watkins -- Edinburgh, enlightenment, and the geographies of unreason / Chris Philo -- Lisbon 1755: enlightenment, catastrophe, and communication / Peter Gould -- Afterword / Roy Porter.…”

Times of history, times of nature : temporalization and the limits of modern knowledge /

Table of Contents: “…Dividing times / Staffan Bergwik and Anders Ekström -- Stratigraphies of time and history : beyond the outrages upon humanity's self-love / Helge Jordheim -- The production and distribution of synchronized time in Sweden, 1850-1914 / Gustav Holmberg -- Environmental times : synchronizing human-earth temporalities from annales to anthropocene, 1920s-2020s / Sverker Sörlin -- Forest time and the passions of economic man / Julia Nordblad -- Little red ring binders : early red list temporalities / Marit Ruge Bjærke -- Oil and Vikings : temporal alignments within Norwegian petroleum fields / Lise Camilla Ruud -- Temporal poetics of planetary transformations : Alexander von Humboldt and the geo-anthropological history of the Americas / Adam Wickberg -- Discovering Moravian history : the many times and sources of an unknown land, 1830-1860 / Emma Hagström Molin -- Synchronizing nature and culture : mediating time in geochronology and dendrochronology, 1900-1945 / Staffan Bergwik -- On record : political temperature and the temporalities of climate change / Eric Paglia and Erik Isberg -- Model time and target years : on the end of time in IPCC futures / Nina Wormbs -- Encountering the geological live : temporalization in the age of natural media / Anders Ekström.…”

Travel, travel writing, and British political economy : "instructions for travellers," circa 1750-1850 / by Cooper, Brian P. 1958-