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自然的造物：洪堡的新世界 The Invention of Nature：Alexander vonHumboldt’s New World

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Format:Paperback / softback 496 pages

Publisher:John Murray Press

Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd

ISBN:9781848549005

Weight:358g

Dimensions:192 x 122 x 33 (mm)

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书籍简介

全国畅销书 • 亚历山大·冯·洪堡的传记，这位富有远见的德国博物学家的思想改变了我们看待自然世界的方式，并在此过程中创造了现代环保主义。 • 来自广受好评的《伟大的反叛者》作者。

“生动而激动人心……伍尔夫激动人心的叙述让这个耀眼的人物重新成为耀眼的、当之无愧的焦点。” —《波士顿环球报》

亚历山大·冯·洪堡（1769-1859）是他那个时代知名的科学家，他是一位富有远见的德国博物学家和博学者，他的发现永远改变了我们理解自然世界的方式。他具革命性的思想之一是将自然视为一种复杂而相互关联的全球力量，它的存在不仅仅是为了人类的利用。在北美，洪堡的名字仍然出现在城镇、县、公园、海湾、湖泊、山脉和河流上。然而，他几乎被遗忘了。

在这本富有启发性的传记中，安德里亚·伍尔夫重新聚焦了洪堡非凡的一生：他对人类引起的气候变化的预测；他大胆地前往南美洲高峰和西伯利亚炭疽病感染的草原；他与西蒙·玻利瓦尔和托马斯·杰斐逊等标志性人物的关系；以及他的著作对达尔文、华兹华斯、歌德、缪尔、梭罗等。《自然的发明》研究精辟，文笔精彩，揭示了洪堡的思想如何以各种方式构成了现代环境保护主义的基础——并提醒我们为什么这些思想仍然具有先见之明和重要性。

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. • From the acclaimed author of Magnificent Rebels. 

"Vivid and exciting.... Wulf’s pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus.” —The Boston Globe

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. In North America, Humboldt’s name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains, and a river. And yet the man has been all but forgotten. 

In this illuminating biography, Andrea Wulf brings Humboldt’s extraordinary life back into focus: his prediction of human-induced climate change; his daring expeditions to the highest peaks of South America and to the anthrax-infected steppes of Siberia; his relationships with iconic figures, including Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson; and the lasting influence of his writings on Darwin, Wordsworth, Goethe, Muir, Thoreau, and many others. Brilliantly researched and stunningly written, The Invention of Nature reveals the myriad ways in which Humboldt’s ideas form the foundation of modern environmentalism—and reminds us why they are as prescient and vital as ever.

作者简介

安德里亚·伍尔夫出生于印度，童年时移居德国。她现居伦敦，在皇家艺术学院接受了设计史学培训。她是《追逐维纳斯》、《创始园丁》和《园丁兄弟》的作者，后者入围塞缪尔·约翰逊奖，并荣获美国园艺学会图书奖。她曾为《纽约时报》、《金融时报》、《华尔街日报》和《洛杉矶时报》撰稿。她经常出现在广播和电视上，并于 2014 年共同主持了英国广播公司电视四集系列节目《英国花园时光》。

ANDREA WULF was born in India and moved to Germany as a youngster. She lives in London, where she trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art. She is the author of 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, the 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.