The Invention of Nature (Record no. 60324)
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| fixed length control field | 02093 a2200217 4500 |
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| fixed length control field | 240522b 2015|||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781848549005 (PB) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 5 |
| Item number | WUL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Wulf, Andrea |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Invention of Nature |
| Sub Title | : The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | John Murray |
| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Place of publication | London |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxi, 473p. |
| Other physical details | col. ill. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes Bibliography (435-455) and Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist - more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon.<br/><br/>His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored deep into the rainforest, climbed the world's highest volcanoes and inspired princes and presidents, scientists and poets alike. Napoleon was jealous of him; Simon Bolivar's revolution was fuelled by his ideas; Darwin set sail on the Beagle because of Humboldt; and Jules Verne's Captain Nemo owned all his many books. He simply was, as one contemporary put it, 'the greatest man since the Deluge'.<br/><br/>Taking us on a fantastic voyage in his footsteps - racing across anthrax-infected Russia or mapping tropical rivers alive with crocodiles - Andrea Wulf shows why his life and ideas remain so important today. Humboldt predicted human-induced climate change as early as 1800, and The Invention of Nature traces his ideas as they go on to revolutionize and shape science, conservation, nature writing, politics, art and the theory of evolution. He wanted to know and understand everything and his way of thinking was so far ahead of his time that it's only coming into its own now. Alexander von Humboldt really did invent the way we see nature.<br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Scientists -- Germany -- Biography |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Natural History |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Naturalists -- Germany -- Biography |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| 1 | IMSc Library | First Floor, Rack No: 23, Shelf No: 8 | 5 WUL | 77862 | BOOKS |