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Ezra described it as a great biography of Alexander von Humboldt that is beautifully structured and thoughtthrough, despite some critique about Indigenous perspectives.
Andrea Wolf's The Invention of Nature, and I think people are not going to like that title for a bunch of different reasons, but it's a great biography of Alexander von Humboldt, who was a naturalist,...
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Ezra described it as a great biography of Alexander von Humboldt that is beautifully structured and thoughtthrough, despite some critique about Indigenous perspectives.
Andrea Wolf's The Invention of Nature, and I think people are not going to like that title for a bunch of different reasons, but it's a great biography of Alexander von Humboldt, who was a naturalist, discovered a million things, had really, really fascinating theories of nature, structured a lot of how the West understands nature today. It's a fantastic biography, just a really beautifully structured and thoughtthrough book.
