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.
先簡單說下這本書吧。這本書是應當下的環保和全球變暖的問題而作,當下流行的自然觀即萬物都是相連的,沒有所謂的自然和社會之間的區彆,自然是一個萬物息息相關的有機體。比如Lovelock的Gaia,Wulf一再重復現在流行的這些觀點洪堡早就提齣來,並用其一生去證明earth as a livi...
評分先簡單說下這本書吧。這本書是應當下的環保和全球變暖的問題而作,當下流行的自然觀即萬物都是相連的,沒有所謂的自然和社會之間的區彆,自然是一個萬物息息相關的有機體。比如Lovelock的Gaia,Wulf一再重復現在流行的這些觀點洪堡早就提齣來,並用其一生去證明earth as a livi...
評分安德烈亞 武爾夫的發現自然,講述瞭亞曆山大 馮 洪堡的科學發展之旅。以旅行與思想的格式編排瞭整本書的架構,按照齣發:新生的想法,到達:收集想法,歸途:整理想法,影響:傳播想法,新世界:想法的演化架構瞭整本書。這個結構自己很是喜歡,仿佛人生就是自然,思想以及人的...
評分 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
评分偉大的祖師爺爺
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