Ranging from his own time to the 21st century, 50 essays and excerpts demonstrate the wide variety of responses to German travel writer Humboldt (1769-1859), especially controversy over his
accounts of the Americas during the 19th century. Among the authors are Friedrich Schiller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, Henry James, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ernst
Bloch. The primary sources could be useful to scholars of German history and culture, European intellectual history, colonialism and the Americas, and other fields. Annotation 穢2012 Book News,
Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
