The invention of nature: Alexander von Humboldt's new world

Part I. Departure: Emerging ideas. Beginnings

Imagination and nature: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt

In search of a destination.

Part II. Arrival: Collecting ideas. South America

The Llanos and the Orinoco

Across the Andes

Chimborazo

Politics and nature: Thomas Jefferson and Humboldt.

Part III. Return: Sorting ideas. Europe

Berlin

Paris

Revolutions and nature: Sim©đn Bol©Ưvar and Humboldt

London

Going in circles: Maladie Centrifuge.

Part IV. 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.

Part V. 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.