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Measuring the World: A Novel
Daniel Kehlmann
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Description for Measuring the World: A Novel
Paperback. The story of two Enlightenment genuises who set out to measure the world. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set out to measure the world. Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat schooled for greatness, negotiates savannah and jungle, climbs the highest mountain then known to man, counts head lice on the heads of the natives, and explores every hole in the ground. Gauss, a man born in poverty who ... Read more
Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set out to measure the world. Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat schooled for greatness, negotiates savannah and jungle, climbs the highest mountain then known to man, counts head lice on the heads of the natives, and explores every hole in the ground. Gauss, a man born in poverty who ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
riverrun
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847241146
SKU
V9781847241146
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99-50
About Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. He has published six novels: Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski, Fame, F, You Should Have Left and Tyll and has won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT ... Read more
Reviews for Measuring the World: A Novel
'Kehlmann is one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today, and he manages all this while exploring matters of deep philosophical and intellectual import. He deserves to have more readers'
Jeffrey Eugenides
'This is a masterpiece'
Independent on Sunday
'Nothing less than a literary sensation'
Guardian
'Pulsing with fictional energy ... Here ... Read more
Jeffrey Eugenides
'This is a masterpiece'
Independent on Sunday
'Nothing less than a literary sensation'
Guardian
'Pulsing with fictional energy ... Here ... Read more