Andrea Wulf
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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Yes, so I wrote a book about Alexander von Humboldt called The Invention of Nature.
And he's probably the most famous man in the books I've written.
He said that everything in nature is connected, that nature is this kind of living organism where everything hangs together from the smallest insect to the tallest tree.
So he gave us really this concept of nature that very much shapes us today.
But he was also part of a group of young romantics who came together in this kind of small town in Germany called Jena.
That's my other book, Magnificent Rebels.
And they were very much interested, again, in this idea that
humans and nature belong together so that we are part of this one kind of system.
And then my latest book is about George Foster.
It's called The Traveler.
And there I really wanted to look at humanity itself.
So it's kind of, I've written a kind of triology the wrong way around.
The one I just published should have been the first one, but that never works like this, does it?
So I started off with Humboldt, and then through Humboldt, I kind of came across the others.
But they are, you know, in terms of the history of ideas, I think they are very important for the way we think today.
And also...
in Foster's case, really a reminder of the importance of ideas of humanity, our common humanity.
So he was someone who
returned from Captain Cook's second voyage with a deep-seated belief in the equality of races, which, you know, given our current climate at the moment, I find a very, you know, inspiring story and a hopeful story, but also a very important story.
You know, how can someone who was brought up in a deeply racist society be so open-minded?
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