Maren Meinhardt

Alexander Von Humboldt: How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

This deeply researched and beautifully written biography celebrates this most famous scientist of the Romantic Age who was a pioneer of modern geography, Earth sciences, ecology, and environmental protection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BlueBridge
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781629190198
• ISBN-10: 1629190195
• Artikelnr.: 53780529

Autorenporträt

MAREN MEINHARDT works at the Times Literary Supplement in London, where she is the editor for Anthropology, German Literature, and Science. She studied psychology and literature at the London School of Economics and the University of Sussex. Her spare time is spent trying to locate wild and unexplored nature outside London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'A Citizen of the World'
2. The View from Tegel
3. An Endless Horizon
4. The Discovery of Warmer Climes
5. 'Febris Gottingensis'
6. Hamburg, an Interlude
7. The Compensations of Mining
8. The Life of the Civil Servant
9. Chemical Attractions
10. Exposed Nerves
11. The Loosening of Ties
12. Goethe's Caravan
13. Departures
14. Across the Atlantic
15. Decisions and Typhoid Fever
16. A New World
17. The American Alps
18. Rousseau in America
19. Touching Untouched Nature
20. Across the Watershed
21. 'The Highest Habitation in the World'
22. 'I Don't Want to End with a Tragedy'
23. The Mind Made Visible
24. A Different Life
25. 'Love and Cheerfulness'