Mail on Sunday: review The Invention of Nature

���This book sets out to restore Humboldt to his rightful place in the pantheon of natural scientists. In the process, Wulf does a great deal more. This meticulously researched work ��� part biography, part cabinet of curiosities ��� takes us on an exhilarating armchair voyage through some of the world���s least hospitable regions, from the steaming Amazon basin to the ice-fringed peaks of Kazakhstan.��� ��� Mail on Sunday

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