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Measuring the World
Measuring the World
Author: Daniel Kehlmann
At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Alexander von Humboldt swashbuckled his way across the globe, navigating ocean and jungle, eating with cannibals, swimming with electric eels, lowering himself into volcanoes and scaling the highest mountain known to man. — Carl Friedr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781847241146
ISBN-10: 184724114X
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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Well, entertaining writing, however, I couldn't get into it really, not sure if it's a biography or a novel the way it's written. Maybe because it's a translation. If you like Umberto Eco, you may like this.


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