Author: Nicholas Polunin
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Category : Phytogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Author: Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226360687
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century, and inspired such essayists and artists as Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Poe, and Church. The chronicles of the expedition were published in Paris after Humboldt’s return, and first among them was the 1807 “Essay on the Geography of Plants.” Among the most cited writings in natural history, after the works of Darwin and Wallace, this work appears here for the first time in a complete English-language translation. Covering far more than its title implies, it represents the first articulation of an integrative “science of the earth, ” encompassing most of today’s environmental sciences. Ecologist Stephen T. Jackson introduces the treatise and explains its enduring significance two centuries after its publication.

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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 922

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Author: Marcel E. Hardy
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Category : Phytogeography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1242

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This encyclopedia includes a two-volume index, a 12-volume Micropaedia (Ready reference), a 17-volume Macropaedia (Knowledge in depth), and the Propaedia.

Author: Christa Gnirss
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Category : Editions
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1250

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Author: Nicholas Polunin
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Category : Fitogeografia
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Author: Christa Gnirss
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Category : Reprints (Publications)
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1242

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