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A review by jcoryv
The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
5.0
Basically read a chapter or so a day.
A few thoughts... read the graphic novel, which covers the first third of this book too. Highly recommend reading together.
Humboldt was a polymath. I feel the author Andrea Wulf must be too... to find all the various resources and combine them into a (very) readable narrative is amazing.
And talk about an influencer... Humboldt was the original: Goethe, Bolivar, Jefferson, Darwin; just to name a few. Wow.
A few thoughts... read the graphic novel, which covers the first third of this book too. Highly recommend reading together.
Humboldt was a polymath. I feel the author Andrea Wulf must be too... to find all the various resources and combine them into a (very) readable narrative is amazing.
And talk about an influencer... Humboldt was the original: Goethe, Bolivar, Jefferson, Darwin; just to name a few. Wow.