The incredible yet true adventures of Alexander von Humboldt : the greatest inventor-naturalist-scientist-explorer who ever lived
Mehnert, Volker2019
Book
A richly illustrated narrative biography about the life and adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the late eighteenth-, early nineteenth-century Prussian polymath-explorer, lost hero of science, and source of inspiration for Charles Darwin and Henry David Thoreau.
Main title:
The incredible yet true adventures of Alexander von Humboldt : the greatest inventor-naturalist-scientist-explorer who ever lived / Volker Mehnert ; illustrated by Claudia Lieb ; translated by Becky L. Crook.
Author:
Imprint:
New York : The Experiment, 2019.©2019
Collation:
105 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm
Notes:
Originally published in Germany as Alexander von Humboldt by Gerstenberg Verlag in 2018.Includes bibliographical references.Translated from the German.
Audience:
Interest age level: 9-12 years old.
ISBN:
97816151963199781615196319 (hbk)9781615196319 (hardback)
Dewey class:
509.2B509
Language:
EnglishGerman
Subject:
BRN:
637483
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | Junior Science and Nature | J SCIENCE 509 | Available |