And yet the man has been all but forgotten. In North America, Humboldt's name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains, and a river. Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. Wulf's pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus." - The Boston GlobeĪlexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world.
From the acclaimed author of Magnificent Rebels. Description NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A biography 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.
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