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WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZE 2016 'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express 'Extraordinary and gripping' New Scientist 'A superb biography' The Economist 'An exhilarating armchair voyage' GILES MILTON, Mail on Sunday Alexander von...

Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award From the Costa Prize-winning author of The Invention of Nature, Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society...

A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America.

Die große Biografie eines Universalgenies. Andrea Wulf vergegenwärtigt das pralle Leben des Universalgenies Alexander von Humboldt und zeigt ihn als interdisziplinären Forscher sui generis. Natur wird bei Humboldt quasi neu erfunden: In ihrer ganzen Fülle als Lebensnetz, als moderne Ausgestaltung der wirkmächtigen Idee von der "great chain of being". Wulf macht deutlich, worin Humboldt seiner Zeit weit voraus war und unverändert wichtig bleibt.

On a summer's day in June 1761, astronomers all over the world cast their eyes to the sky to witness a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It was one of the most important collaborations of scientific history, as by racing to different points around the world and comparing results, these men hoped to unlock the key to one of the most pressing questions of the Enlightenment: the distance between the Earth and the sun, which would allow them to calculate the dimensions of our solar system.

Ende der 1790er Jahre – als die meisten Staaten in Europa noch im eiserenen Griff absolutistischer Herrscher waren – galt die Idee vom freien Individuum als brandgefährlich. Und dennoch stellte eine Gruppe von Denkern in der kleinen Universitätsstadt Jena das Ich in den Mittelpunkt ihres Denkens, Schreibens und Lebens. Zu diesem Kreis gehörten die Dichter Goethe, Schiller und Novalis ebenso wie die Philosophen Fichte, Schelling und Hegel, die genialen Schlegel-Brüder und ihre Muse, Caroline Schlegel.

Cosa accomuna un manipolo di mercanti e giardinieri inglesi, un intraprendente agricoltore americano e il botanico svedese più famoso di tutti i tempi? Fairchild, Miller, Bartram, Collinson, Banks, Linneo: sono solo alcuni membri della "confraternita dei giardinieri" che, con ruoli, motivazioni e interessi diversi, nel corso del Settecento animarono una vera e propria "rivoluzione botanica", così profonda e invasiva da aver dato forma non solo ai giardini e ai parchi inglesi così come oggi possiamo ammirarli.

La espléndida biografía de Alexander von Humboldt, el héroe perdido de la ciencia y padre de la ecología.

A groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. “Illuminating and engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review For the Founding Fathers...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Traveller spreads out before us the life and times of George Forster, who journeyed to the far reaches of the known world, and whose radical ideas about humanity, equality and freedom challenged the worldviews of eighteenth-century Europe. Andrea Wulf paints a...

Step into the life and times of George Forster, the eighteenth-century naturalist who sailed the world and made waves with his revolutionary ideas about humanity and freedom—from the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature. "[A] thrilling biography-cum-adventure story." —Hampton Sides...