The incredible yet true adventures of Alexander von Humboldt : the greatest inventor-naturalist-scientist-explorer who ever lived
(2019)
By:
Mehnert, Volker
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
J/BIOGRAPHY/509.2/HUMBOLDT,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : The Experiment, 2019
DESCRIPTION
105 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781615196319, 1615196315 :, 9781615196319
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Originally published in Germany as Alexander von Humboldt by Gerstenberg Verlag in 2018."--Title page verso
"A richly illustrated middle-grade 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"--
Ages 8-12
Grades 7-9