The Invention of Nature
The Invention of Nature – Alexander von Humboldt’s New World Territorial Nevadans in the 19th century considered naming their new state-to-be Humboldt. Instead, the famous scientist’s name was attached to a Nevada county and a 330 mile long river that ignominiously disappears into the Humboldt Sink in the Great Basin. Alexander von Humboldt never visited […]
Wilderness and the American Mind
Wilderness and the American Mind, 5th Edition First published in 1968, Wilderness and the American Mind, the seminal book about the history of the idea of wilderness in American culture; and now, the 5th edition retains the chapters of the first four while adding a prologue and epilogue by Roderick Nash and a preface by Char […]