Alexander von Humboldt : the complete drawings from the American travel journals /
?This stunning volume delves into the extraordinary illustrated notebooks of Alexander von Humboldt's journeys through the Americas, which reveal the graphic musings of an intrepid explorer, a writer and philosopher and the father of the environmental movement. At the dawn of the 19th century,...
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Munich ; London ; New York :
Prestel,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger
- Introduction / Ottmar Ette
- Editorial note / Julia Maier
- The complete drawings. Trigonometry and surveying ; Sky and cosmos ; Surface and interior of the earth ; Living beings ; Culture ; Materiality
- Original quotations in foreign languages.