A review by auntblh
Looking for Humboldt & Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond by Erika Schelby

1.0

I was selected as a winner in the Goodreads giveaway for this book. I had previously read and enjoyed The Invention of Nature: Alexander van Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf and was excited to possibly learn more about him and his ties to New Mexico. Alas, several chapters in and I was still looking for Humboldt and trying to figure out what the author was actually writing about. The writing seemed to be disjointed with seemingly unrelated topics in the same paragraph and chapter. I tried to skim and skip some chapters but that just confused me even further so I finally gave up.