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  • The Invention of Nature

  • The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
  • Von: Andrea Wulf
  • Gesprochen von: David Drummond
  • Spieldauer: 14 Std. und 3 Min.
  • Ungekürztes Hörbuch
  • Kategorien: Geschichte, Europa
  • 4,4 out of 5 stars (29 Bewertungen)

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    Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2015. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize 2015 (Science and Technology). Shortlisted for the Independent Book Week Award 2016.

    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'.
    ©2015 Andrea Wulf. Recorded by arrangement with Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC (P)2015 Highbridge, a division of Recorded Books
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    "Dazzling." ( Literary Review)
    "Brilliant." ( Sunday Express)
    "Extraordinary and gripping." ( New Scientist)
    "A superb biography." ( The Economist)
    "An exhilarating armchair voyage." (Giles Milton, Mail on Sunday)

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    Very good

    Flawless performance and inspiring story on a remarkable man. The ending chapters can seem less relevant though.

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    Good. But unecessary chapters on other biographies

    This book is good, when it is speaking of Humboldt's life. The problem is that there are circa 5 chapters about the life of other persons influenced by Humboldt (Darwin, Thoreau, Bolívar, and others). Although their lives are interesting, the focus of their chapters goes astray on aspects of their lives completly unrelated with Humboldt's life. I would 've preferred more time on Humboldt's life than the hours about the lives of the mentioned persons.

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