La Invención de la Naturaleza: El Mundo Nuevo de Alexander Von Humboldt / The in Vention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World by Wulf, Andrea

La Invención de la Naturaleza: El Mundo Nuevo de Alexander Von Humboldt / The in Vention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World

La espléndida biografía de Alexander von Humboldt, el héroe perdido de la ciencia y padre de la...
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Author: Andrea Wulf
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La Invención de la Naturaleza: El Mundo Nuevo de Alexander Von Humboldt / The in Vention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World by Wulf, Andrea

La Invención de la Naturaleza: El Mundo Nuevo de Alexander Von Humboldt / The in Vention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World

$75.34

La Invención de la Naturaleza: El Mundo Nuevo de Alexander Von Humboldt / The in Vention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World

$75.34
Author: Andrea Wulf
Format: Hardcover
Language: Spanish
La espléndida biografía de Alexander von Humboldt, el héroe perdido de la ciencia y padre de la ecología.
La invención de la naturaleza revela la extraordinaria vida del visionario naturalista alemán Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) y cómo creó una nueva forma de entender la naturaleza.
Humboldt fue un intrépido explorador y el científico más famoso de su época. Su agitada vida estuvo repleta de aventuras y descubrimientos: escaló los volcanes más altos del mundo, remó por el Orinoco y recorrió una Siberia infestada de ántrax. Capaz de percibir la naturaleza como una fuerza global interconectada, Humboldt descubrió similitudes entre distintas zonas climáticas de todo el mundo, y previó el peligro de un cambio climático provocado por el hombre.
Convirtió la observación científica en narrativa poética, y sus escritos inspiraron no solo a naturalistas y escritores como Darwin, Wordsworth y Goethe, sino también a políticos como Jefferson o Simón Bolívar. Además, fueron las ideas de Humboldt las que llevaron a John Muir a perseverar en sus teorías, y a Thoreau a escribir su Walden. Wulf rastrea la influencia de Humboldt en las grandes mentes de su tiempo, a las que inspiró en ámbitos como la revolución, la teoría de evolución, la ecología, la conservación, el arte y la literatura.
La invención de la naturaleza está entre los mejores libros del año según The New York Times, The Independent y Publishers Weekly entre otros.

Reseñas:
Una lectura sensacional. El estupendo nuevo libro de Andrea Wulf se atreve con la figura de Alexander von Humboldt. La invención de la naturaleza es un elogio de altísima calidad a una figura cautivadora.
Simon Winder, The Guardian

Un libro emocionante. [...] Es imposible leerLa invención de la naturaleza sin contraer la fiebre Humboldt.Wulf tiene el poder de volvernos a todoshumboldtianos. Por momentos se lee como literatura de aventuras, y la investigación deWulf tiene dimensiones casihumboldtianas.
New York Review of Books

Consigue su objetivo de rescatar la reputación de Humboldt de la grieta en la que él y muchos otros escritores y científicos alemanes cayeron después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
The Independent

Wulf demuestra que Humboldt fue un auténtico visionario, cuya perspectiva es hoy más pertinente que nunca.
Booklist

Una biografía brillantemente escrita. Como demuestra este maravilloso libro, la figura de Humboldt debería incorporarse a toda prisa en todos los programas educativos de la Tierra.
The Scotsman

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

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.

NATIONAL BEST SELLER

One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The James Wright Award for Nature Writing, the Costa Biography Award, the Royal Geographic Society's Ness Award, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award

Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Kirkus Prize Prize for Nonfiction, the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award

A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, Nature, Jezebel, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, New Scientist, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Evening Standard, The Spectator

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.

Author: Andrea Wulf
Publisher: Taurus
Published: 01/31/2017
Pages: 584
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.10w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9788430618088
Language: Spanish

About the Author
Andrea Wulf nació en India, se mudó a Alemania de niña y hoy vive en Londres, donde da clases de Historia del Diseño en el Royal College of Art. Es autora de libros como The Brother Gardeners y Founding Gardeners. The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation, aclamado por la crítica. Ha colaborado con The New York Times, el LA Times, el Wall Street Journal, el Sunday Times y el Guardian, entre otros medios. Ha dado conferencias en lugares como la Royal Geographical Society, la Royal Society de Londres, la American Philosophical Society de Philadelphia y la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York, entre muchos otros.

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