![]() Wulf follows in the footsteps of Stephen Hawking (2002) and Bill Bryson (2004), to win the prize. It is a book you will find yourself talking endlessly about with friends in the pub.” The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf is a thrilling adventure story as much as a science book about a polymath who had an extraordinary impact on our contemporary understanding of nature. “The decisive factor for the winning book was that it excited and gripped us as judges the most. On the Moon there is also a basaltic plane named Humboldtianum.Ĭhair of judges and former winner of the Prize, Bill Bryson said: ![]() Humboldt's namesakes include the Humboldt Current – the cold ocean current that hugs South America - mountain ranges in China, New Zealand and South Africa a breed of penguins in South America a river in Brazil a glacier in Greenland 13 towns in North America and a predatory six-foot squid. ![]()
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