One of my favorite books of all time. I saw Wulf speak at Vanderbilt last year and the stories she shares about Humboldt are really remarkable ... One of the wo

One of my favorite books of all time. I saw Wulf speak at Vanderbilt last year and the stories she shares about Humboldt are really remarkable ... One of the world's greatest scientists, adventurers and thinkers. Now his name is hardly known, overtaken by his disciple, Charles Darwin.