34. Book club: The Invention of Nature (Humboldt biography) by Andrea Wulf, parts 1 & 2

This is the first episode of the third edition of the book club. This time, we're reading Andrea Wulf's biography of Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature. In this episode, we will discuss parts 1 and 2. As always with the book club, in each episode we will talk about whatever happened, so there will be spoilers and it probably makes most sense if you have read as far as we have. 

For this series, I'm joined by Cody Kommers, former guest of the podcast (episode 4), fellow podcaster, and fellow PhD student in cognitive neuroscience. Cody has a particular interest in travel and psychology.

Podcast links

Website: https://bjks.buzzsprout.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BjksPodcast

Cody's links

Website: https://www.codykommers.com/Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=ImTtx_kAAAAJTwitter: https://twitter.com/codykommersNewsletter: https://codykommers.substack.com/

Ben's links

Website: www.bjks.blog/Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=-nWNfvcAAAAJTwitter:  https://twitter.com/bjks_tweets

References
Berlin, I. (2013). The roots of romanticism. Princeton University Press.
Fatland, E. (2020). Sovietistan. Simon and Schuster.
Lévi-Strauss, C. (1955). Tristes Tropiques. Librairie Plon.
Wulf, A. (2015). The invention of nature: Alexander von Humboldt's new world. Knopf.