Environmentalism for outsiders: what Alexander van Humboldt offers modern America.(The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism)(Book review)

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THE HUMBOLDT CURRENT Nineteenth Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism By Aaron Sachs Viking | $25.95

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