From the Book - First American edition.
Departure : Emerging Ideas. Beginnings ; Imagination and nature : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt ; In search of a destination.
Arrival : Collecting Ideas. South America ; The Llanos and the Orinoco ; Across the Andes ; Chimborazo ; Politics and nature : Thomas Jefferson and Humboldt.
Return : Sorting Ideas. Europe ; Berlin ; Paris ; Revolutions and nature : Simón Bolívar and Humboldt ; London ; Going in circles : maladie centrifuge.
Influence : Spreading Ideas. Return to Berlin ; Russia ; Evolution and nature : Charles Darwin and Humboldt ; Humbolt's Cosmos ; Poetry, science and nature : Henry David Thoreau and Humboldt.
New Worlds : Evolving Ideas. The greatest man since the deluge ; Man and nature : George Perkins Marsh and Humboldt ; Art, ecology and nature : Ernst Haeckel and Humboldt ; Preservation and nature : John Muir and Humboldt.
