Meet the Greats: Fernwood Virtual Lecture Series
In this beautifully illustrated talk, award winning and bestselling author, Andrea Wulf, tells the story of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), the great scientist and intrepid explorer who has more things named after him than anyone else. He turned scientific observation into poetic narrative, and his writings inspired naturalists and poets such as Darwin and Goethe but also politicians such as Jefferson and Bolivar. He described earth as a living organism that could easily be destroyed by humankind and predicted harmful human-induced climate change already in 1800. Andrea Wulf is an award–winning author of five acclaimed books, including the Founding Gardeners and The Invention of Nature that were both on the New York Times Best Seller List. The Invention of Nature won more than a dozen international awards and has been published in 26 languages. Andrea will be speaking to us from the U.K. and just finished filming a Humboldt documentary for ZDF in Germany and Smithsonian Channel in the U.S.