Transatlantic Echoes

Rex Clark is a Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, researching the history of travel guides and travel discourse in the eighteenth century and focusing on Friedrich Nicolai, Georg Forster, and Alexander von Humboldt. He has published articles on digital media, postcolonial travel theory, and the reception of Alexander von Humboldt.

“There is no doubt that these volumes combine the most comprehensive collection of texts for the colorful and shifting history of Humboldt's fame...By laboriously assembling, and in many cases translating, an impressive number of texts from remote corners of libraries and collections, Clark and Lubrich have provided a valuable service to scholars and the general public. In this process they have filled a neglected space in the literature about Humboldt. They have pointed to the issues of colonialism and integrated Latin American voices and into the dialogue about Humboldt, a dialogue that concerns primarily Latin America. the world that Humboldt treated so exhaustively in histwenty-nine volumes. “  ·  Yearbook of German-American Studies

• List of IllustrationsEditorial methodAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Imagining HumboldtChapter 1. Elective Affinities 1809Johann Wolfgang von GoetheChapter 2. The Winter Garden 1809Ludwig Achim von ArnimChapter 3. A Voyage Around the World 1817Adelbert von ChamissoChapter 4. Memoirs 1818José Servando Teresa de MierChapter 5. On the Teocalli of Cholula 1820José María HerediaChapter 6. Don Juan 1821George Gordon ByronChapter 7. The Guahiba. A Tale 1822William HerbertChapter 8. My Delirium on Chimborazo 1822Simón BolívarChapter 9. Allocution to Poetry 1823Andrés BelloChapter 10. Letters 1824Carl RitterChapter 11. The Rock of the Mother, or the Guahiba Indian 1828Adelbert von ChamissoChapter 12. Letters to Jeanette Wohl 1828-30Ludwig BörneChapter 13. Letters 1831-34Charles DarwinChapter 14. ‘Beagle’ Diary 1832Charles DarwinChapter 15. On the Relation of Man to the Globe 1833Ralph Waldo EmersonChapter 16. Administrative Adventures of a Wonderful Idea 1834Honoré de Balzac Chapter 17. Diaries 1834Hans Christian AndersenChapter 18. Voyage of the Beagle 1836Charles Darwin Chapter 19. Journey to the Mountain of Toluca 1837José María HerediaChapter 20. Life in Mexico 1840-41Frances Calderón de la BarcaChapter 21. A Walk to Wachusett 1842Henry David Thoreau Chapter 22. This Book Belongs to the King 1843Bettina von ArnimChapter 23. Journals 1845Ralph Waldo Emerson Chapter 24. Letters 1845-54Charles DarwinChapter 25. Diaries 1846Hans Christian AndersenChapter 26. The Involuntary Comedians 1846Honoré de BalzacChapter 27. To Humboldt. An Ode 1847Bernhard von Lepel Chapter 28. Journals 1847Franz GrillparzerChapter 29. Eureka: A Prose Poem 1848Edgar Allen PoeChapter 30. Knights of the Spirit 1850-51Karl GutzkowChapter 31. A Girl of the People 1852Karl GutzkowChapter 32. Journals 1852Franz GrillparzerChapter 33. Letters 1853Frederic Edwin ChurchChapter 34. Lutezia 1854Heinrich HeineChapter 35. Indian Summer 1857Adalbert StifterChapter 36. A Son of Alexander von Humboldt 1858Eugen Hermann [von Dedenroth] Chapter 37. Poems 1858Friedrich Adolf MaerckerChapter 38. The Conduct of Life 1860Ralph Waldo EmersonChapter 39. Leaves of Grass 1860Walt Whitman Chapter 40. Poems 1862Friedrich Adolf Maercker Chapter 41. Travels through the Mark of Brandenburg 1862Theodor FontaneChapter 42. Voyage to the Interior of the Earth 1864Jules VerneChapter 43. Adventures of Captain Hatteras. The Desert of Ice 1865Jules VerneChapter 44. The Children of Captain Grant 1865-67Jules VerneChapter 45. Abu Telfan 1868Wilhelm RaabeChapter 46. For the Humboldt Festival in America 1869Emil RittershausChapter 47. Humboldt’s Birthday 1869Oliver Wendell Holmes Chapter 48. The Memory of Humboldt 1869William McJimseyChapter 49. Journals 1869Ralph Waldo Emerson Chapter 50. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas 1869-70Jules Verne Chapter 51. Memoirs 1875Heinrich LaubeChapter 52. Looking Back on my Life 1875Karl GutzkowChapter 53. My Life on the Stage 1876Karoline Bauer Chapter 54. A Voyage to Venezuela 1881José MartíChapter 55. The Giant Raft. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 1881Jules Verne Chapter 56. Letters 1881Charles Darwin Chapter 57. O Guesa 1884Joaquim de SousândradeChapter 58. The Buchholz Family 1884Julius Stinde Chapter 59. Autobiography 1887Charles DarwinChapter 60. The Mighty Orinoco 1898Jules Verne Chapter 61. The Crisis 1901Winston Churchill Chapter 62. Conquering Hero and Fool 1903August Strindberg Chapter 63. Through the Brazilian Wilderness 1914Theodore Roosevelt Chapter 64. Macunaíma 1928Mário de Andrade Chapter 65. Bolívar 1930Jordan Herbert Stabler Chapter 66. Astonishment at the Rhine Falls 1933Ernst Bloch Chapter 67. Beyond the Mexique Bay 1934Aldous HuxleyChapter 68. Dialogue with a Nazi 1944Egon Erwin KischChapter 69. The Fair Rodríguez 1949Artemio de Valle-ArizpeChapter 70. The Lost Steps 1953Alejo CarpentierChapter 71. The Cantos, Canto LXXXIX 1956Ezra Pound Chapter 72. Alexander von Humboldt 1959Theo Piana and Horst SchönfelderChapter 73. Hallucinations 1966Reinaldo Arenas Chapter 74. Seventy Drifted Away 1966Ernst JüngerChapter 75. Corollary Bird 1966Pablo NerudaChapter 76. The Guacharo 1969Erich Fried Chapter 77. Seventy Drifted Away 1970Ernst JüngerChapter 78. On the Chimborazo 1974Tankred DorstChapter 79. Humboldt’s Gift 1975Saul Bellow Chapter 80. A. H. (1769-1859) 1975Hans Magnus EnzensbergerChapter 81.  A Conversation in the House of Stein about the absent Herr von Goethe 1975Peter HacksChapter 82. Guevara, or the Republic of the Sun 1975Volker BraunChapter 83. Humboldt and Bolivar, or The New Continent 1979Claus Hammel Chapter 84. The Russian Letters of the Huntsman Johann Seifert 1980Christoph HeinChapter 85. Humboldt & Bonpland, Taxidermists 1981Ibsen MartínezChapter 86. Caribbean Cold Breeze 1984Hans Christoph Buch Chapter 87. Memory of Fire 1985Eduardo GaleanoChapter 88. My Chimborazo Journals 1987-88Rainer Simon Chapter 89. The Ascent of Chimborazo 1988Paul Kanut Schäfer and Rainer Simon Chapter 90. Distant Land 2005Rainer Simon Chapter 91. In Trouble Again 1988Redmond O’HanlonChapter 92. The General in his Labyrinth 1989Gabriel García MárquezChapter 93. Aire Libre 1996Luis Armando Roche and Jacques EspagneChapter 94. Equinoctial Recurrence 1998Denzil Romero Chapter 95. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter 2000César AiraChapter 96. The Explorer 2001Mattias Gerwald [Berndt Schulz]Chapter 97. Humboldt. Travel-Novella 2001Günter Herburger Chapter 98. Wide World 2004Lauren Gunderson Chapter 99. Alexander von Humboldt and François Arago 2004Hans Magnus EnzensbergerChapter 100. Measuring the World 2005Daniel KehlmannSource BibliographyIndex