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.
書名小識 不像哥倫布或牛頓,洪堡沒有發現一片新大陸或物理學上的新定律。他不是以某一項事實或發現著稱的,而是以他的世界觀;他的自然之觀點已經滲透到瞭我們每個人的意識之中。 不像從小就知道大仲馬和小仲馬的區彆,在沒有讀本書之前,我一直以為洪堡是一位地理學傢兼語言...
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...
評分不知道為什麼,原書的副標題“洪堡的新世界”在中文版被改成瞭“洪堡的科學發現之旅”。對比起來,原文顯然精妙得多。一方麵是一語雙關地影射瞭洪堡在研究方麵的開創性成果;另一方麵則是更好地對應瞭洪堡所倡導的“自然之網”概念。 在這部傳記中,並非隻有洪堡一人的開拓經曆...
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...
評分偉大的祖師爺爺
评分(聽的)這本書真的太好瞭。地理學還激動人心的時代
评分(聽的)這本書真的太好瞭。地理學還激動人心的時代
评分偉大的祖師爺爺
评分(聽的)這本書真的太好瞭。地理學還激動人心的時代
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