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Roundtable Review of The Passage to Cosmos by Laura Dassow Walls
In this book, Laura Dassow Walls describes how the explorer Alexander von Humboldt developed his unitary worldview.
In this book, Laura Dassow Walls describes how the explorer Alexander von Humboldt developed his unitary worldview.
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of these authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them.