Neal Burdick asked: “Are we so captivated by waterfalls because they are so mysterious
Ryan’s essay on the design and construction of Olana between 1870 and 1891 and the life and work of Frederic Church has been enhanced by an afterword on the subsequent history of Olana from Church’s death in 1900 to the present
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
Publisher: BeeZeus Publishing
Selected Writings of Alexander von Humboldt Neal Burdick asked: “Are weTo 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,