Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library - Selected writings | alexander von humboldt

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• Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age
• His life was packed with adventure and discovery
• Whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes
• Swimming with crocodiles
• Racing through anthrax-infected Siberia
• Or publishing groundbreaking bestsellers
• Ahead of his time
• He recognized nature as an interdependent whole and he saw before anyone else that humankind was on a path to destroy it
• He was one of the first European to study the Inca
• Aztec and Mayan cultures and his epic five-year expedition to Latin America (1799–1804) prompted him to denounce slavery as 'the greatest evil ever to have afflicted humanity'