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The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World

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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrea WulfPublish date:2016-10-04Pages:576
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780345806291ISBN-10:345806298UPC:9780345806291Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Environmentalists & Naturalists, Adventurers & Explorers, Life SciencesBook Topic:EvolutionSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC4FF7QGFA
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world--and in the process created modern environmentalism. - From the acclaimed author of Magnificent Rebels.

"Vivid and exciting.... Wulf's pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus." --The Boston Globe

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. In North America, Humboldt's name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains, and a river. And yet the man has been all but forgotten.

In this illuminating biography, Andrea Wulf brings Humboldt's extraordinary life back into focus: his prediction of human-induced climate change; his daring expeditions to the highest peaks of South America and to the anthrax-infected steppes of Siberia; his relationships with iconic figures, including Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson; and the lasting influence of his writings on Darwin, Wordsworth, Goethe, Muir, Thoreau, and many others. Brilliantly researched and stunningly written, The Invention of Nature reveals the myriad ways in which Humboldt's ideas form the foundation of modern environmentalism--and reminds us why they are as prescient and vital as ever.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780345806291ISBN-10:345806298UPC:9780345806291Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Environmentalists & Naturalists, Adventurers & Explorers, Life SciencesBook Topic:EvolutionSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC4FF7QGFA
ANDREA WULF was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in London, where she trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art. She is the author of Chasing Venus, Founding Gardeners, and The Brother Gardeners, which was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and awarded the American Horticultural Society Book Award. She has written for The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. She appears regularly on radio and TV, and in 2014 copresented British Gardens in Time, a four-part series on BBC television.
Publisher: Vintage

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