Die Vermessung der Welt
Duan pian xiao shuo
OUR Brockhaus selection
German language materials
Biographical fiction
Mathematicians
Scientists, fiction
German fiction
Belletristische Darstellung
Fiction, biographical
Explorers
Long Now Manual for Civilization
Fiction, historical
Intellectual life
Fiction, historical, general
Romans, nouvelles
New York Times reviewed
Fiction
The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiate…
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