I just had the most fabulous review in the New York Review of Books … It's even titled 'The Very Great Alexander von Humboldt"

“Thrilling new biography. … Wulf’s book is as much a history of those ideas as it is of the man. The man may be lost but his ideas have never been more alive … In our Anthropocene age Humboldt’s theories read like prophecy. More important, they offer wisdom about the way forward. It is impossible to read The Invention of Nature without contracting Humboldt fever. Wulf makes Humboldtians of us all. … At times The Invention of Nature reads like pulp explorer fiction … She has gone to near-Humboldtian lengths to research her book” – New York Review of Books

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