Introduction
Select Bibliography
Chronology
A Note on the Text
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of
the New Continent (1814–29)
From Essay on the Geography of Plants (1807)
From Views of Nature (1849)
From Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous
Peoples of the Americas (1810–13)
From Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (1826)
From Cosmos. Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe
(1845–61)
Index
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT (1769-1859) was a German polymath and
explorer whose expeditions, ranging from the highest peaks in the
Andes to the steppes of Siberia, laid the groundwork for the field
of biogeography.
ANDREA WULF was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She
lives in London, where she trained as a design historian at the
Royal College of Art. She is the author of The Invention of Nature,
Chasing Venus, Founding Gardeners, and The Brother Gardeners, which
was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and awarded the
American Horticultural Society Book Award. She has written for The
New York Times, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the
Los Angeles Times. She appears regularly on radio and TV, and in
2014 copresented British Gardens in Time, a four-part series on BBC
television.
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