Andrea Wulf

Suddeutsche Zeitung: Visionary Sciences

Here is a long article in the Suddeutsche Zeitung (in German) about visionary scientists and endeavours – and of course Humboldt plays a big role in it. Lovely to see that the German newspapers have noticed The Invention of Nature.

click here for full article (Humboldt bit starts at the end of page 2)

Costa Book Awards 2015

Category winners at the Costa Book Awards ceremony.

click here for BBC News report of the ceremony

And here is a short film (3min) about the award ceremony

And here the short film about The Invention of Nature for Costa Book Awards ceremony 

BBC News: Meet The Author

Nick Higham interviewed all five Costa winners on BBC News 'Meet The Author"

here are the clips

 

Washington Post: Environmental gardening and Humboldt

Adrian Higgins (gardening columnist at the Washington Post) has written a piece about environmental gardening and the roots of ecological thought - with a great big chunk of the article dedicated to Humboldt and The Invention of Nature.

click here

The Atlantic Column: Maria Sibylla Merian

My second column on the history of science for The Atlantic 'The Woman Who Made Science Beautiful"

click here for full article

New York Times: Bestseller List

Lovely to see The Invention of Nature back on the New York Times Bestseller List this week.

Number 19, hardcover, non-fiction

Download NY Times Bestseller 24 Jan

Financial Times: The Invention of Nature

“In one of 2015’s best-selling biographies the author Andrea Wulf has traced the idea in the life of the 18th-century German aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt … a fulsome tour of Humboldt and those he influenced … She has travelled in Humboldt’s footsteps and made good use of original German evidence. I have much enjoyed my eco-tour through the plant world in her company … Wulf does fine justice to his astonishing energy and wonderfully restless mind” – Robin Lane–Fox, Financial Times

click here for review

 

Christian Science Monitor: The Invention of Nature

‘With a rare ability to distill complicated ideas into graceful, pithy prose and a knack for timing: the genesis of our view of the planet has never been so relevant” – Christian Science Monitor

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Evening Standard: London's Bestsellers

What a lovely surprise in yesterday's Evening Standard.

The Invention of Nature on number 4 - in my hometown, no less ...

 

Huffington Post: The Invention of Nature

“Astonishing new book … Reading this book, you will find out-- in sumptuous, finely written detail--why Humboldt was so highly regarded by these and many, many other contemporaries … Andrea Wulf's book is a paragon of research, thoughtfulness, considerable humor and fine writing. Her accomplishment in explaining this remarkable man to us is to be congratulated.” – Huffington Post

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