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Andrea Wulf (born 1967) is a German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews. Biography Wulf was born in New Delhi, India, a child of German developmental aid workers, and spent the first five years of her life there, then grew up in Hamburg. She studied first at the University of Lüneburg, and then design history at The Royal College of Art, London. Wulf is a public speaker, delivering lectures in the UK and USA. She was the guest speaker at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Her book The Brother Gardeners was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and received a CBHL Annual Literature Award in 2010. In 2016, she won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize and the Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award for her book The Invention of Nature. She was a judge for the 2023 Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction. Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens (2012) is a non-fiction book about expeditions of scientists who set off around the world in 1761 and 1769 to collect data relating to the transit of Venus and thereby to measure and understand better the universe. The narrative style provides glimpses into the personalities of those involved, their aims and obsessions, their failures and discoveries, and provides the historic context of the period in the 18th century when modern-day scientifically accurate mapping and international scientific collaboration began. The Invention of Nature The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (2015) is a nonfiction book about the Prussian naturalist, explorer and geographer Alexander von Humboldt. Wulf makes the case that Humboldt synthesised knowledge from many different fields to form a vision of nature as one interconnected system, that would go on to influence scientists, activists and the public. Books This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History, Little, Brown, 2005, ISBN 9780316725804 The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession, Vintage Books, 2008, ISBN 9780307454751 Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation, Knopf Doubleday, 2012, ISBN 9780307390684 Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens (2012) ISBN 9780307958617 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, Knopf, 2015, ISBN 9781848548985 The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, Pantheon, 2019 (co-authored with Lillian Melcher - illustrator) ISBN 9781524747374 Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self, Knopf, 2022, ISBN 9780525657118 References External links Official website. Discover the Andrea Wulf popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Andrea Wulf books.
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Alexander von Humboldt
Rüdiger SchaperVon Tegel in die Welt und zurück: Humboldt, Preuße und EntdeckerVon Preußen in die Welt: Aus der Perspektive der letzten Jahrzehnte, die Humboldt, nach seinen Entdeckerjahren in Üb...
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Last Light
Richard LacayoOne of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing some of the greatest work of their long careersand, in some cases, chang...
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A Green and Pleasant Land
Ursula BuchanSHORTLISTED FOR INSPIRATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2014 GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDS. The wonderfully evocative story of how Britain’s World War Two gardeners – with great ingenuit...
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The Invention of Nature
InstareadThe Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf | Summary & Analysis Preview: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf is a biography of Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian naturali...
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Football Fever 3
Tony BradmanPep times his move with instinctive perfection. Suddenly, he's back on the ball, and the defenders realize (too late, because they're committed now) that he never really left: it ...
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Sternstunden
Peter NeumannDie Geschichte eines philosophischen AufbruchsMit den Ideen der Französischen Revolution gerät nicht nur das alte Europa ins Wanken. Eine ganze Generation von Dichtern und Philosop...
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Odyssey
Tom ChaffinAn illuminating and lively narrative of Charles Darwin’s formative years and adventurous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle.Winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Biograph...
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Die Entdeckung der Unendlichkeit
Aeneas RoochWas ist die Unendlichkeit? Gibt es verschiedene Unendlichkeiten? Vielleicht sogar in unterschiedlichen Größen? Wächst die Unendlichkeit immer weiter und ist niemals abgeschlossen? ...
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The Fly Trap
Fredrik SjöbergFredrik Sjöberg's Swedish bestseller about summer, islands, freedom and boundaries. 'The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants...
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Der Ruf der Kraniche
Bernhard WeßlingKraniche sind rätselhafte Vögel. Nur wenige wissen etwas über diese grazilen Tänzer der Lüfte. Der renommierte Naturforscher Bernhard Weßling nimmt uns mit auf spannende Expedition...
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Magnificent Rebels
Andrea WulfA NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebelspoets, novelists, philo...
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By Any Other Name
Simon MorleyA beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination.‘Fascinating... I’ll never look at a rose in quite th...
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Teufelsblume
Martin ConrathDiese Blumen bringen den Tod!In Düsseldorf wird eine Frauenleiche gefunden. Sie lag schon länger in der Erde, wurde dann exhumiert und mit großer Mühe adrett hergerichtet. In ihren...
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The Invention of Nature
Andrea WulfNATIONAL BESTSELLER A biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural worldand in the process created modern en...
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Infinite Life
Jules HowardAn expansive investigation into the most unifying and enduring structure in the history of lifeand a story of biological richness at a moment when so much of our precious biod...
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The Company of Trees
Thomas Pakenham'The master. Puts all other modern treewriters in the shade' John LewisStempel, author of MeadowlandThomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Company of Trees h...