When I ask my environmentalist friends what they know about Alexander von Humboldt, they sometimes mention the oceanic current that bears his name. Beyond that, they generally shrug their shoulders, ...

In this successor to Wulf’s Alexander von Humboldt biography The Invention of Nature, Wulf and illustrator Melcher gloriously depict the explorer and polymath’s grueling five-year journey through the ...

Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt, by Julius Schrader, 1859. Behind Humboldt are the mountains of Chimborazo and Cotopaxi in Ecuador. Humboldt’s exploration of these peaks shaped his view of nature ...

LONDON (AP) — A biography of German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt has been named science book of the year. Andrea Wulf’s “The Invention of Nature” was awarded the 25,000-pound ...

The father of nature writing, intrepid explorer, friend to revolutionaries and US presidents, Alexander von Humboldt was the original scholar adventurer. Fearlessly footloose and boundlessly curious, ...

German historian Andrea Wulf is THE expert on Alexander von Humboldt. Our conversation with her was like a homage to the great adventurer and polymath! Andrea Wulf spent a decade researching the life ...

Part I. Departure : emerging ideas. Beginnings ; Imagination and nature : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt ; In search of a destination -- Part II. Arrival : collecting ideas. South America ; ...

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) has been a major influence and inspiration in the world of science for centuries, though many are unfamiliar with his work today. Wulf composed this rich account to ...