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

by Laura Dassow Walls

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226871827
• ISBN13: 9780226871820
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"