Alexander von Humboldt was a naturalist and explorer whose books about his travels won legions of admirers, among them the young Charles Darwin. Andrea Wulf, who wrote the biography The Invention ...
From the London Daily News. BERLIN, March 6. The great literary novelty of the day is a thick octavo volume of Letters from Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense," published by BROCKHAUS ...