For Further Reading
- Sachs, Aaron, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, (Viking, 2006), Melville is one of four Americans the author focuses on who were influenced by Alexander von Humboldt.
Read more about this topic: George W. Melville
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