The search for Humboldt.(GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW ESSAY)(Alexander von Humboldt)(Book review)

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HUMBOLDT'S COSMOS: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World. By GERARD HELFERICH. xxiv and 358 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. New York: Gotham Books, 2004. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 1592400523; $15.00 (paper), 1592401066.

THE HUMBOLDT CURRENT: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. By AARON SACHS. xii and 496 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. New York: Viking Penguin, 2006. $25.95 (cloth), ISBN 0670037753; $16.00 (paper), ISBN 0143111922.

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