Andrea Wulf was born in India, moved to Germany as a child, and now lives in England. She is the author of several acclaimed books. The Brother Gardeners won the American Horticultural Society Book Award and was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Her book Founding Gardeners was on the New York Times bestseller list. Andrea has written for many newspapers including the Guardian, LA Times and New York Times. She was the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence 2013 and a three-time fellow of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. She appears regularly on TV and radio.
Alexander 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.
發表於2024-12-23
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1 1831年12 月27日, 22歲的查爾斯·達爾文乘坐“小獵犬”號帆船從英國樸茨茅斯港齣發,開始瞭環球航行。他隨身的行李中有一套洪堡記述南美洲探險的七捲本《旅行故事》。 達爾文後來說,“齣於對這部著名遊記的仰慕之情,我決定去遊曆那些遙遠的國度,並最終誌願登上女王陛下的...
評分如果不是因緣巧閤或者是冥冥之中自有天意,自己應該不會看到這本書。想當一個和洪堡一樣純粹的人,又懷疑這種純粹是不是也是“天選之子”的幸運。 就內容來講,主要著重描寫洪堡行走南美探索熱帶自然種種,真的是用腳丈量,用手描繪奇異世界(對比想到現在的各種科技真的是為科...
評分 評分文/寶木笑 “那麼多種聲音都在告訴我們,自然中的一切都在呼吸。” ——亞曆山大•馮•洪堡 上麵的話是剛過而立之年的亞曆山大•馮•洪堡在南美洲的雨林中寫下的,那段時間他和他的夥伴險象環生,睡覺時會有蛇盤踞在墊子下麵,也許還有美洲豹毛茸茸的利爪慢慢伸來,搜...
評分圖書標籤: 博物學 科學史 科學 曆史 英文原版 2017
(聽的)這本書真的太好瞭。地理學還激動人心的時代
評分偉大的祖師爺爺
評分偉大的祖師爺爺
評分(聽的)這本書真的太好瞭。地理學還激動人心的時代
評分偉大的祖師爺爺
The Invention of Nature 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載