
Discover the forgotten genius who inspired Darwin, predicted climate change, and revolutionized how we see nature. The New York Times "Best Book of 2015" resurrects Humboldt's epic adventures and visionary ideas that still shape our environmental consciousness today.
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Picture a Prussian aristocrat clinging to a two-inch ridge at 19,413 feet, bleeding and gasping in the thin air of what was believed to be Earth's highest peak. Alexander von Humboldt wasn't there for glory or conquest-he was there to measure, to observe, to understand. Standing before an impassable crevasse on Chimborazo in 1802, he experienced something that would revolutionize how we see our planet: nature wasn't a collection of separate parts to be catalogued and controlled. It was one magnificent, interconnected organism where everything related to everything else. This insight-radical for its time-would make Humboldt the most famous scientist in the world, yet somehow lead to his near-total erasure from English-speaking memory. How does someone who warned about human-induced climate change in 1800 become forgotten?
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