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OverviewAt the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Alexander von Humboldt swashbuckled his way across the globe: navigating ocean and jungle, eating with cannibals, swimming with electric eels, lowering himself into volcanoes and scaling the highest mountain known to man. Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the other hand, stayed at home, using the power of thought to battle his way into exotic mathematical realms and the landmark realization that space is curved. Measuring the World brings these two geniuses to life, capturing their balancing act between loneliness and love, absurdity and greatness, failure and success. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel KehlmannPublisher: Quercus Publishing Imprint: Quercus Publishing Dimensions: Width: 13.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.90cm Weight: 0.238kg ISBN: 9781847241146ISBN 10: 184724114 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 04 October 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsMeasuring the World has proved nothing less than a literary sensation... the novel has sold more than 600,000 copies in Germany, knocking J K Rowling and Dan Brown off the bestseller lists... it is the most successful German novel since Patrick Suskind's Perfume... 31-year-old Daniel Kehlmann is a literary wunderkind already being compared to Nabokov and Proust - Guardian I felt so enlivened by reading this delightful novel, finishing the book with such good cheer and hope... the sense of boundless possibility, the excitement of discovery ... optimism and hope ... a wonderful novel instantly clamouring to be made my top choice - Sue Baker, Publishing NewsFilled with wry humour and fascinating anecdotes, this is a warm, witty and ultimately tragic celebration of the many faces of genius - The Good Book GuideIn sparing prose Kehlmann cleverly combines a great enthusiasm for the Enlightenment spirit of enquiry with demystifying depictions of the individuals involved...Moving...Hilarious - Book of the Week - 5 stars out of 6 - Time OutKehlmann creates a comic and engaging narrative of two brilliant but eccentric minds struggling to make sense of the world...Plays cleverly with ideas about varieties of truth and the impossibility of reconciling them - The Sunday Times, Paperback of the WeekThis novel measures the lifelines of two Enlightenment geniuses against each other with a cool scientific confidence...Kehlmann is a skilled navigator and a careful wordsmith - The ObserverMeasuring the World is a sparkling novel of ideas that manages to be both informative and readable. Daniel Kehlmann wears his own knowledge and brings these brilliant men alive with wit and brio - The Mail On SundayAn entertaining jeu d'esprit with a sharp intellectual and satirical edge - The Sunday Telegraph 'Pulsing with fictional energy ... Here for once is a popular hit as sophisticated as it is engaging' Sunday Times. 'This is a masterpiece' Independent on Sunday. 'A dazzling success ... Fantastically imagined' Daily Telegraph. 'Nothing less than a literary sensation' Guardian. Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.kehlmann.com/Daniel Kehlmann was born in 1975 in Munich. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Vienna and Berlin. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.kehlmann.com/Countries AvailableAll regions |
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