The Problem with Andrea Wulf's Biography of Humboldt - a podcast by Michael Robinson: historian of science and exploration

Andrea Wulf’s book the The Invention of Nature tells the story of Alexander von Humboldt, one of the world’s most important nineteenth-century explorers. Professor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra talks about some of the problems of the book, specifically how Wulf’s view of Humboldt divorces him from the Central and South American scholars who helped him re-imagine the Americas for European and North American readers. 
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