The Invention of Nature：Alexander von Humboldt's New World
- 作者
- 出版社 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- 出版时间 2015年9月
- ISBN 9780385350662
- 定价 224.20
内容简介
OneoftheNewYorkTimes10BestBooksoftheYearABestBookoftheYear:TheEconomist,PublishersWeekly,KirkusReviewsWinneroftheCostaBiographyAwardFinalist--LosAngelesTimesBookPrizeFinalist--CarnegieMedalforExcellenceinNonfictionFinalist--KirkusReviewsPrizeforNonfictionAlexandervonHumboldt(1769–1859)wasanintrepidexplorerandthemostfamousscientistofhisage.InNorthAmerica,hisnamestillgracesfourcounties,thirteentowns,ariver,parks,bays,lakes,andmountains.Hisrestlesslifewaspackedwithadventureanddiscovery,whetherhewasclimbingthehighestvolcanoesintheworldorracingthroughanthrax-infectedSiberiaortranslatinghisresearchintobestsellingpublicationsthatchangedscienceandthinking.AmongHumboldt’smostrevolutionaryideaswasaradicalvisionofnature,thatitisacomplexandinterconnectedglobalforcethatdoesnotexistfortheuseofhumankindalone.NowAndreaWulfbringsthemanandhisachievementsbackintofocus:hisdaringexpeditionsandinvestigationofwildenvironmentsaroundtheworldandhisdiscoveriesofsimilaritiesbetweenclimateandvegetationzonesondifferentcontinents.Shealsodiscusseshispredictionofhuman-inducedclimatechange,hisremarkableabilitytofashionpoeticnarrativeoutofscientificobservation,andhisrelationshipswithiconicfiguressuchasSimónBolívarandThomasJefferson.WulfexamineshowHumboldt’swritingsinspiredothernaturalistsandpoetssuchasDarwin,Wordsworth,andGoethe,andshemakesthecompellingcasethatitwasHumboldt’sinfluencethatledJohnMuirtohisideasofnaturalpreservationandthatshapedThoreau’sWalden.Withthisbrilliantlyresearchedandcompellinglywrittenbook,AndreaWulfshowsthemyriadfundamentalwaysinwhichHumboldtcreatedourunderstandingofthenaturalworld,andshechampionsarenewedinterestinthisvitalandlostplayerinenvironmentalhistoryandscience.
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