TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mehnert,Volker
AU  - Lieb,Claudia
AU  - Crook,Becky L.
TI  - The incredible yet true adventures of Alexander von Humboldt: the greatest inventor-naturalist-scientist-explorer who ever lived 
SN  - 9781615196319
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - The Experiment
KW  - Humboldt, Alexander von,
KW  - Scientists
KW  - Germany
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Naturalists
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Illustrated works
N1  - "Originally published in Germany as Alexander von Humboldt by Gerstenberg Verlag in 2018."--Title page verso; "With 75 color illustrations"--Page 4 of Cover; Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-105); Prologue -- An adventurous boy -- Farewell, Europe. Which way to the Americas? ; The volcano of Tenerife ; Across the Atlantic -- Venezuela. First steps in South America ; A waterway through the jungle ; Solving a geographical puzzle -- Through the Andes Mountains. From the swelter to cooler climes ; On top of South America ; Onward to the Pacific! -- The voyage home. The land of silver ; An American president ; A global citizen in Europe ; The second man -- New adventures. A whirlwhind trek through Siberia ; The world comes to Berlin; Ages 8 and up
N2  - "A richly illustrated middle-grade narrative biography about the life and adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the late eighteenth-, early nineteenth-century Prussian polymath-explorer, lost hero of science, and source of inspiration for Charles Darwin and Henry David Thoreau"--
ER  -