ANDREA WULF was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in London, where she trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art. She is the author of Chasing Venus, Founding Gardeners, and The Brother Gardeners, which was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and awarded the American Horticultural Society Book Award. She has written for The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. She appears regularly on radio and TV, and in 2014 copresented British Gardens in Time, a four-part series on BBC television.
www.andreawulf.com
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life 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.
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. In North America, his name still graces four counties, thirteen towns, a river, parks, bays, lakes, and mountains. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether he was climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infected Siberia or translating his research into bestselling publications that changed science and thinking. Among Humboldt’s most revolutionary ideas was a radical vision of nature, that it is a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone.
Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his daring expeditions and investigation of wild environments around the world and his discoveries of similarities between climate and vegetation zones on different continents. She also discusses 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 Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Wulf examines how Humboldt’s writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Darwin, Wordsworth, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt’s influence that led John Muir to his ideas of natural preservation and that shaped Thoreau’s Walden.
With this brilliantly researched and compellingly written book, Andrea Wulf shows the myriad fundamental ways in which Humboldt created our understanding of the natural world, and she champions a renewed interest in this vital and lost player in environmental history and science.
##不知道为啥豆瓣评分这么高。内容非常好,但是可读性差点,写得不够有趣。还有在那个全球化的殖民时代,洪堡的科学上的贡献对于政治经济上的意义没怎么涉及。另:此书标记我豆瓣读过1000本!
评分 评分##Knowledge does not chill the feelings because the senses and the intellect are connected.
评分 评分 评分##引起我注意的是这本书的封面和书名,精美的封面加上《创造自然》这个书名,让我以为这是一本满是插图的博物学笔记,我刚买了一本《地球之美》,这书里用文字和图画逐一介绍地球知识,非常漂亮,也非常有意思,我以为《创造自然》是这样一本书。 没想到这是一个人的传记。 而且...
评分##一部以关键人物为核心的通俗概念史,把洪堡的人生围绕“自然”或者说整体相联系的生态系统这个核心概念进行了裁剪。最享受的部分反倒不是读洪堡本人的经历,而是读到达尔文因为读到了洪堡的游记才踏上小猎犬号,然后在热带雨林里兴奋地写信回家说看到了洪堡去过的热带
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