The Invention of Nature
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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MERLIN SHELDRAKEWINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA
BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE
2016'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson'Dazzling' Literary
Review'Brilliant' Sunday Express'Extraordinary and gripping' New
Scientist'A superb biography' The Economist'An exhilarating
armchair voyage' GILES MILTON, Mail on SundayAlexander von Humboldt
(1769-1859) is the great lost scientist - more things are named
after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain
ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast,
there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on
the moon.His colourful adventures read like something out of a
Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored deep into the rainforest,
climbed the world's highest volcanoes and inspired princes and
presidents, scientists and poets alike. Napoleon was jealous of
him, Simon Bolívar's revolution was fuelled by his ideas, Darwin
set sail on the Beagle because of Humboldt, and Jules Verne's
Captain Nemo owned all his many books. He simply was, as one
contemporary put it, 'the greatest man since the Deluge'.Taking us
on a fantastic voyage in his footsteps - racing across
anthrax-infected Russia or mapping tropical rivers alive with
crocodiles - Andrea Wulf shows why his life and ideas remain so
important today. Humboldt predicted human-induced climate change as
early as 1800, and The Invention of Nature traces his ideas as they
go on to revolutionize and shape science, conservation, nature
writing, politics, art and the theory of evolution. He wanted to
know and understand everything and his way of thinking was so far
ahead of his time that it's only coming into its own now. Alexander
von Humboldt really did invent the way we see nature.
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John Murray Press ,
Andrea Wulf
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John Murray Press,
Andrea Wulf
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