The Invention of Nature

Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Maps

Author’s Note

Prologue

PART I. DEPARTURE: EMERGING IDEAS

1. Beginnings

2. Imagination and Nature: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt

3. In Search of a Destination

PART II. ARRIVAL: COLLECTING IDEAS

4. South America

5. The Llanos and the Orinoco

6. Across the Andes

7. Chimborazo

8. Politics and Nature: Thomas Jefferson and Humboldt

PART III. RETURN: SORTING IDEAS

9. Europe

10. Berlin

11. Paris

12. Revolutions and Nature: Simón Bolívar and Humboldt

13. London

14. Going in Circles: Maladie Centrifuge

PART IV. INFLUENCE: SPREADING IDEAS

15. Return to Berlin

16. Russia

17. Evolution and Nature: Charles Darwin and Humboldt

18. Humboldt’s

Cosmos

19. Poetry, Science and Nature: Henry David Thoreau and Humboldt

PART V. NEW WORLDS: EVOLVING IDEAS

20. The Greatest Man Since the Deluge

21. Man and Nature: George Perkins Marsh and Humboldt

22. Art, Ecology and Nature: Ernst Haeckel and Humboldt

23. Preservation and Nature: John Muir and Humboldt

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Illustration Credits

Notes

A Note on Humboldt’s Publications

Sources and Bibliography

Index

Illustrations