Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt, by Julius Schrader, 1859. Behind Humboldt are the mountains of Chimborazo and Cotopaxi in Ecuador. Humboldt’s exploration of these peaks shaped his view of nature ...
A scene from Andrea Wulf’s new book “The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt,” which depicts how Alexander von Humboldt was able to obtain electric eels to study their leaping attack behavior.
In “Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self,” Andrea Wulf explores how a group of writers and philosophers in a small German town in the late 18th century formulated very ...
Philadelphia farmer John Bartram was one of the men responsible for Britain’s revolutionary garden culture of the 18th century. Author ANDREA WULF tells the story of a group of naturalists who shaped ...
"The Cincinnatus of the West" : George Washington's American garden at Mount Vernon -- "Gardens, peculiarly worth the attention of an American" : Thomas Jefferson's ...
**Andrea Wulf** was born in India, moved to Germany as a child, and now lives in Britain. She is the author of several acclaimed books. ‘The Brother Gardeners’ won the American Horticultural Society ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Andrea Wulf is an Author with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2011 Speech. Andrea Wulf explores the Founding Father’s interests in botany and ...
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