Andrea Wulf: 11 books

La espléndida biografía de Alexander von Humboldt, el héroe perdido de la ciencia y padre de la ecología. La invención de la naturaleza revela la extraordinaria vida del visionario naturalista alemán Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) y cómo creó una nueva forma de entender la naturaleza. Humboldt...

The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. NATIONAL BEST SELLER **One of the New York Times...

From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the Founding Fathers like none you've seen before. For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist...

Was hat Alexander von Humboldt, der vor mehr als 150 Jahren starb, mit Klimawandel und Nachhaltigkeit zu tun? Der Naturforscher und Universalgelehrte, nach dem nicht nur unzählige Straßen, Pflanzen und sogar ein »Mare« auf dem Mond benannt sind, hat wie kein anderer Wissenschaftler unser Verständnis...

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was een moedige ontdekkingsreiziger en de bekendste wetenschapper van zijn tijd. Hij had een grote honger naar avontuur en ontdekkingen, hij beklom de hoogste vulkaan ter wereld, reisde door Siberië, waar de bevolking aan miltvuur leed, en deed onderzoek in de meest...

Descritto dai suoi contemporanei come “l’uomo più famoso al mondo dopo Napoleone”, Alexander von Humboldt fu uno dei personaggi più affascinanti e stimolanti del suo tempo. Nato nel 1769 in una ricca famiglia aristocratica prussiana, rinunciò a una vita privilegiata per scoprire come funzionava...

From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the men who made Britain teh center of the botanical world. Bringing to life the science and adventure of eighteenth-century plant collecting, The Brother Gardeners is the story of how six men created the modern garden...

The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor—the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion:...

Cosa accomuna un manipolo di mercanti e giardinieri inglesi, un intraprendente agricoltore americano e il botanico svedese più famoso di tutti i tempi? Fairchild, Miller, Bartram, Collinson, Banks, Linneo: sono solo alcuni membri della «confraternita dei giardinieri» che, con ruoli, motivazioni...

洪堡德，被達爾文譽為「最偉大的科學旅行家」。 ** ** 200****年前，他就以博物學式的觀察， 提出了自然是「生命之網」。 ** ** 他的眼界超越了自己的時代， 更重新創造了我們眼前的世界。 ** ** ** ** ** ** ──《紐約時報》十大好書、《經濟學人》年度好書 ──作家、東華大學華文系教授 ...