Selected Writings of Alexander von Humboldt In the 1800's Kaaterskill Clove

In the 1800's Kaaterskill Clove was a mandatory stop on the American Grand Tour and as famous and familiar to world travelers as Niagara Falls

and beautifully illustrated with over 750 full-color photographs

but more and more his creative energies went into the transformation of his modest hilltop home into a towering Persian fortress/treasure house and the extensive grounds into what one 1891 visitor described as a “perfect Eden of picturesque beauty

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

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Selected Writings of Alexander von Humboldt In the 1800's Kaaterskill CloveTo 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,