The invention of nature, by andrea wulf the new york times. Humboldt in the new world national endowment for the. He transformed our understanding of physical geography and meteorology, and spent his. This new book offers a vivid and detailed description of humboldts travels, using his personal travel annotations, drawings, cartographic material. Author andrea wulf discusses her book the invention of. Standard, austria this is the most unusual book published for humboldt s anniversary. It is almost as though his ideas have become so manifest that the man behind them has disappeared. Writer and historian andrea wulfs new book, the invention of nature, aims to restore humboldt to his rightful place in science history. Humboldt s quantitative work on botanical geography was foundational to the field of biogeography. Her book founding gardeners was on the new york times bestseller list. How is this book different than aaron sachs the humboldt current. The book follows humboldt from his early childhood and travels through europe as a young man to his journey through latin america and his return to europe.
Political essay on the kingdom of new spain, volume 1. In north america, his name still graces four counties, thirteen towns, a. With his book kosmos he made a valuable contribution. A sketch of a physical description of the universe 5 volumes.
Contemporaries spoke of him as second in fame only to napoleon. The invention of nature by andrea wulf the boston globe. Following andrea wulfs 2015 bestseller, the invention of nature. It starts with a description of the world he was born into prussia, preromanticism and the eminent philosophers, poets and writers of the time, i. A sketch of the physical description of the universe, vol. He is widely recognized for his works on botanical geography which laid the foundation for biogeography. Standard, austria this is the most unusual book published for humboldts anniversary. It is the dutch equivalent of the widely known annual hettner lectures at the university of heidelberg. Persons stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the englishlanguage world of the present. Volume 1 of this critical edition includes a note on the text from the humboldt in english team, an introduction by editors vera m. Andrea wulf, who wrote the biography the invention.
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