Selected Writings of Alexander von Humboldt Hilltop at Sunset

Hilltop at Sunset

Neal Burdick asked: “Are we so captivated by waterfalls because they are so mysterious

but in landscape

the world is whispering

Selected Writings of Alexander von Humboldt Hilltop at SunsetTo Humboldt, the melody of his prose was as important as its empirical content, and this selection from his most famous worksincluding Cosmos, Views of Nature, and Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, among othersallows us the pleasure of reading his own accounts of his daring explorations. Humboldts writings profoundly influenced naturalists and poets including Darwin, Thoreau, Muir, Goethe, Wordsworth,