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Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

出版社： John Murray (Publishers) Ltd.

書林書號：

30222274

作者：

Wulf, Andrea

定價：

529

會員價：

$503

ISBN：

9781848549005

出版年份：

2016

裝訂：

平裝

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榮獲柯斯達傳記獎(Costa Biography Awards)

TheInvention of Nature 是本引人入勝且扣人心弦的一流傳記，作者Andrea Wulf以出色的筆法，替偉大卻被世人遺忘的德國自然學者Alexander Von Humboldt(1769-1859)作傳，Alexander一生熱愛探險，他鍥而不捨的一生，

充滿了驚奇的冒險、不斷的探索與發現，無論是攀爬世界最高的火山，或是進入疾病肆虐的西伯利亞，處處都見得到他的身影。

闖蕩世界的同時，Alexaner發現「大自然」是連結世界的力量。他的影響力非同凡響，演化之父達爾文與浪漫派桂冠詩人華茲華斯皆有受到他的影響與啟發。如此不凡之人怎能遺忘，幸好有這本書的出版，讓人得以再次溫習人類探索大自然的歷險，再次以大自然為師。

The acclaimed author of The Brother Gardeners and Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of the visionary German naturalist whose ideas continue to influence how we view ourselves and our relationship with the natural world today. Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. He came up with a radical vision of nature, that it was a complex and interconnected global force and did not exist for man's use alone. Ironically, his ideas have become so accepted and widespread that he has been nearly forgotten. Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his investigation of wild environments around the world; his discoveries of similarities between climate zones on different continents; his prediction of human-induced climate change; his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation; and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simon Bolivar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how his writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt's influence on John Muir that led him to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau's Walden. Humboldt was the most interdisciplinary of scientists and is the forgotten father of environmentalism. With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written book, she makes clear the myriad, fundamental ways that Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world.