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Measuring the world : a novel /

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Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975-
Corporate Author: Phoenix Audio
Other Authors: Strong, Rider, 1979-, Janeway, Carol Brown
Format: CD Audio Book
Language:English
Published: [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : Phoenix Audio, [2006]
Subjects:
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859 > Fiction.
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, > 1777-1855 > Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Audiobooks.

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