UK Kindle Summer Sale
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa Winner 2015 - 22 Oct 2015 by Andrea Wulf
£1.49 Kindle Edition
Previously £11 or £16
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invention-N...dp/B00PW4O1SQ/
(Review)
This is one of the finest books published this year. Magnificently researched and elegantly written. Wolf tells the story of Alexander von Humboldt, one of the most remarkable men of the 18th century. His exploits were so vast that you are left feeling exhausted when you have finished this outstanding book.
Humboldt was born in 1769. His parents were a wealthy Prussian family. He died aged 89. In 1801 he described a scenario in which mankind having destroyed our planet proceed to inhabit other world's only to destroy them. An amazing piece of foresight. He had more things named after him than any other person in history. For example, an ocean current, towns, a squid, minerals, a place on the moon, many rivers and geysers were all named after him. Why?
Andrea Wulf was born in India, moved to Germany as a child, and now lives in Britain. She is the author of several books. Her book “Brother Gardeners” won the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award and was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008. The “Founding Gardeners” was published under great acclaim in spring 2011 and made it on the New York Times Best Seller List.
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Alexander von Humboldt at Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1995