Alexander von Humboldt

The 15 Must Read Books For Anyone Travelling to Latin America

By Bennett Tucker 16 November, 2016

I can still vividly remember the weeks preceding my first excursion alone in Latin America, to Nicaragua and Honduras, in which I was completely engulfed in the poems of Ruben Dario, the biography of Augusto Sandino, and paperback... Read Article

The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf

By Ryan Schumacher 07 December, 2015

With The Invention of Nature (subtitled The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science) Andrea Wulf makes a persuasive case that Alexander von Humboldt’s contributions are foundational to modern scientific and environmentalist thought and should... Read Article