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|title=The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
|author=Andrea Wulf
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=We donAlexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769, the younger brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher and linguist. The family was well-to-do and both brothers benefitted from an excellent education, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mother, but it was a legacy from her which would fund Alexander't have a review s first explorations. His first travels would be in Europe where he met and was influenced by people such as Joseph Banks, President of this book yet!the Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels in Latin America which would lay the foundations for his life's work.
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