Event Title
Cosmos, Nature and the Web of Life. Alexander von Humbold's influence on John Muir
Location
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
Start Date
22-3-2014 12:30 PM
End Date
22-3-2014 1:30 PM
Mar 22nd, 12:30 PM
Mar 22nd, 1:30 PM
Cosmos, Nature and the Web of Life. Alexander von Humbold's influence on John Muir
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
Comments
Andrea Wulf was born India, moved to Germany as a child, and now lives in Britain. She is the author of several books. Her book The Brother Gardeners. Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession won the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award and was long-listd for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008, the most prestigious non-fiction award in the UK. The Founding Gardeners, The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation was published under great acclaim in spring 2011 and made it on the New York Times Best Seller List. Andrea has written for many newspapers including the Guardian, the LA Times and the New York Times. She was the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence 2013 and a three-time fellow of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. She also appears regularly on NPR in the US, and on radio and TV programmes on the BBC in the UK. She is currently working on a book called 'The Invention of Nature' about Alexander von Humboldt and his influence on scientists, thinkers and poets (published by Knopf in late 2015)