Andrea Wulf's Blog, page 41

Review of Stephen Buchmann's The Reason for Flowers in WSJ

Here is my review of Stephen Buchmann's "The Reason for Flowers" - which is a pretty terrible book. Very rambling and not enjoyable. Shame.

click here for review on Wall Street Journal website 

click for PDF of review Download Petal to the Metal - WSJ

The Invention of Nature: Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly

Another fabulous early review of The Invention of Nature. A 'starred' review. 

"Evocative descriptions of his expeditions ��� delightful stories ��� Wulf���s stories of wilderness adventure and academic exchange flow easily, and her affection for von Humboldt is contagious."

        ���Publisher���s Weekly

click here for full review in Publisher's Weekly

BBC Radio 4 Making History: Interview about Humboldt

Tom Holland interviewed me on BBC Radio 4 about Alexander von Humboldt's importance for environmentalism (and a bit about the man himself of course) in a programme about the natural history of history ... so to speak. 

click below for the podcast

MakingHistory 21-7-15

or here for BBC Making History website 

Richard Holmes on "The Invention of Nature"

And here is another spectacular advance quote for 'The Invention of Nature" ... by Richard Holmes who wrote the epic 'The Age of Wonder'. I'm so honoured.

"The Invention of Nature is a big, magnificent, adventurous book ��� so vividly written and daringly researched ��� a geographical pilgrimage and an intellectual epic! With brilliant, surprising, and thought-provoking connections to Sim��n Bol��var, Charles Darwin, William Herschel, Charles Lyell, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe, Henry David Thoreau, George Perkins Marsh��� The book is a major achievement.���

Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder and Coleridge

Bookseller: Invention of Nature - One of top 12 books for October 2015

Invention of Nature listed in Bookseller as one of the top twelve books to be published in October 2015.

Review of Frank Wilczek'a A Beautiful Question in Financial Times

Here is my review of Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek's book about the question of beauty in the universe.

Download ���A Beautiful Question���, by Frank Wilczek - FT.com (to avoid pay wall of FT)