Fumboruto No Boken Shizen Toiu <Seimei No Ami> No Hatsumei / Original Title: the INVENTION of NATURE

[Machine Translation] Humboldt, a rare scientist, was as influential as Napoleon in the first half of the 19th century and fascinated the world with his exciting adventures and meticulous observations. His eyes could read the details of vegetation and mountain surfaces, and at the same time, he keenly discerned the chain of phenomena between nature and mankind. He took science as a starting point to look at all fields, including politics, economics, and history, and advocated that "the earth is a single living organism. In this age of environmental destruction, armed conflict, and other complex intertwining of nature and human activities, this definitive biography of the last giant of natural history has been acclaimed by the scientific community and the Western media, and has finally been translated into Japanese!

19世紀前半、ナポレオンと並ぶ絶大な影響力をもち、胸躍る冒険と緻密な観測で世界中を魅了した稀有な科学者フンボルト。その目は、植生や山肌の細部を読みとると同時に、自然と人間のあらゆる現象の連鎖を鋭く見抜いた。科学を起点として、政治、経済、歴史等あらゆる分野を俯瞰し、「地球はひとつの生命である」と唱えたのだ。環境破壊や武力紛争等、自然と人間の営みが複雑に絡み合う現代において、博物学最後の巨人の今日的意味を描き出し、科学界をはじめ欧米メディアで絶賛された決定版伝記、ついに邦訳!