and then later as older man there so there's this really wonderful shift you can see how they become very close and they begin to work together and when you look at william's work on language you can see that he does exactly what alexander bass with nature he sees language as a living organism. vilhelm was the prussian academic alexander the cosmopolitan explorer who became world famous he soon found berlin to provincial and lived in paris when he wasn't traveling his journeys took him to the united states and russia. and though he spent years planning a voyage to india he never made it there as britain's king george the 4th wouldn't give him permission. home bolt is everywhere in monuments places and geographical features around the world have been named after him

including the homebuilt current which flows along the western coast of south america there's also the penguin this lily is named after him even. name. it's weird when you go to america where hardly anyone knows alexander from on board there's so many places named after their best for example there are 13 towns named after him there are 4 counties there's a bay there is a river there is a university named after and there's the how about she's some some younger. kids kind of teenagers early twenty's people know his name because the best marianna comes from humboldt county so they have heard is there but they don't know who he is 150 years ago it was a different story in 196910 years after his death and on the 100th anniversary of his birth who both was only with fireworks around the globe why was he only but

forgotten afterwards. there's not a single big discovery attached to him was the name so he did not come up with the theory of evolution or he didn't discover. and natural law he came up with this idea that nature as a weapon of life we've taken this idea for so technical so so much for granted that we've forgotten the man behind this idea i think that's one thing and the other thing is that he is the his way of doing science of saying yes on the one hand you have to measure everything but on the other hand you also have to use your imagination was absolutely not accepted in the early 20th century anymore and then last but not least at least in the english speaking world he there's a very strong german sentiment with world war one so that that's the moment when he's going to get pushed out of the public memory here. many of whom both scientists seem to address contemporary problems not only because we are increasingly dealing with the effects of climate change but also because more and

more people are asking what they can do to halt it such as those taking part in the fridays to future movement headed by swedish chain richard to. realize 2 centuries earlier that human intervention in the natural world can have terrible consequences . there's a moment in his diary in 81 when he's when he's in in latin america where he actually says that one day we might travel to distant planets and if we do that we will bring who will take our lethal mixture of greed arrogance and while it's with us and we will leave those planets as ravaged as we've already done with earth so i think he sees this trajectory what we are what we are. about what's about to happen i mean he in 832 he says there are 3 ways in which the in which humans can affect the climate he says is through deforestation through irrigation and through

the great masses of steam and gas at the industrial centers $832.00 so that was pretty like a prediction pretty prophetic. but the time bill finished. writing the invention of nature she thought she knew everything there was to know about alexander from whom bolt had been bilin state library acquired his diaries which hadn't been accessible to the public before and she wasn't done with one boat yet. there is actually one moment i can tell you exactly when i decided that i had to write a 2nd book about which was when. when his legendary south american diaries where bored so they had been in private ownership until then but at the end of 2013 they were bored by the process and heritage foundation and they were made available online so this was the moment when the 1st pages became available at

the end of 2014 this was the moment when i was just handing over my manuscript for the invention of nature. so i couldn't use them. for the imagination which was not a problem tons of content we cause we had transcriptions but seeing the actual paper pages 4000 pages with hundreds of little sketches and drawings i knew i wanted to do a book that would also show artistic visual side because he did not just understand nature intellectually but also visually so that's when i decided to do whatever you want to call it a kind of graphic novel or a graphic nonfiction illustrated. journey of discovery or whatever it is but something that would show his stuff this trailer based on the adventures of alexander from home bold shows that the book does more than summarize homebuilt south american adventure he recounts his 1st encounter with the continent's indigenous peoples his fascination with its natural beauty his discoveries and his

observations about man made disasters illustrator lilian melcher worked many of whom original texts and drawings into this wonderful graphic novel. so in a way he became the collaborator so i wrote it. up and about on every single page there something that did his manuscripts his his engravings his original plan specimens his maps is so his his handwriting is everywhere. untrainable spent a decade researching the life of alexander from home in archives libraries and private collections she traveled the world following in his footsteps to find out what he saw and felt on his expeditions she learned about the hardships he endured and the diversity of nature there's no doubt that alexander from whom bolt was a fascinating figure. how do you close the book on someone's son vibrant

and does she even want to. what i think i want to have to say goodbye forever he's just going to be like an old friend you see not as much as anymore maybe. i'm pretty sure that i'll continue being interested in him i mean this is the same with my previous books one about the founding fathers i didn't talks in advance about it has to do interviews about it not as much as and anymore but i do have the feeling in the last almost 4 years since the invention came out i've been home was opposite the lady and it's kind of time to step back at some stage so. in 2020 i'm going to finally write another book so so i will see less of him i won't get completely divorced but i also will have some new friends which i will have to entertain not just him. untrainable snoo project is another historical biography

this one is about several people she won't reveal to me however she doubt she'll ever encounter another figure as exciting and 50 cent and important as alexander from him both the great german naturalist and explore our. own.

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