Andrea Wulf
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Chasing Venus, The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humboldt's New World |
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
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
She was a judge for the 2023 Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction.[7]
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.[8]
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[9]
- The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession, Vintage Books, 2008,
- Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation, Knopf Doubleday, 2012, ISBN 9780307390684[12]
- Chasing Venus: the Race to Measure the Heavens (2012) ISBN 9780307958617[13]
- 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
- ^ "A conversation with 'Founding Gardeners' author Andrea Wulf". Washington Post. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ "Samuel Johnson Prize Latest News". 13 February 2012. Archived from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ "2010 Annual CBHL Literature Award [Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries]". 8 July 2010. Archived from the original on 8 July 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ "The Royal Society announces the winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ^ "2016 medals and awards recipients announced". Royal Geographical Society. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ Creamer, Ella (8 October 2023). "Music, history and courageous journalism: Baillie Gifford prize shortlist announced". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
- ^ A. Wulf. Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens. NY: Knopf, 2012
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
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