01847cam a2200397 i 4500 418399935 TxAuBib 20200226120000.0 190719s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019024865 9781615196319 1615196315 (OCoLC)1089418457 TxAuBib rda eng ger Mehnert, Volker,. The incredible yet true adventures of Alexander von Humboldt : the greatest inventor-naturalist-scientist-explorer who ever lived / Volker Mehnert ; illustrated by Claudia Lieb ; translated by Becky L. Crook. New York : The Experiment, 2019. 105 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "Originally published in Germany as Alexander von Humboldt by Gerstenberg Verlag in 2018."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references. "A richly illustrated middle-grade narrative biography about the life and adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the late eighteenth-, early nineteenth-century Prussian polymath-explorer, lost hero of science, and source of inspiration for Charles Darwin and Henry David Thoreau"-- Provided by publisher. Ages 8-12 The Experiment. Grades 7-9 The Experiment. 20200226. Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 Juvenile literature. Scientists Germany Biography Juvenile literature. Naturalists Germany Biography Juvenile literature. Lieb, Claudia.