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What Nature Translated makes clear, in its engaging and often forensic attention to the translator's art, is that studies of translation are of central importance in understanding how scientific and geographical ideas circulated among specialist and popular audiences in the nineteenth century. --Innes M. Keighren, Royal Holloway, University of London Scottish Geographical Journal, 2020 Alison Martin's Nature Translated is a significant addition to Humboldt studies. [...] The work of translation, and in particular of female translators hitherto marginalised or overlooked entirely, was central to the meaning and mobility of Humboldt's words and to his reputation as a man of action and of letters. [...] Nature Translated is important, thoughtfully written, and thought provoking. --Charles W. J. Withers, University of Edinburgh Journal of Historical Geography, 66 (2019)

Alison Martin's Nature Translated is a significant addition to Humboldt studies. [...] The work of translation, and in particular of female translators hitherto marginalised or overlooked entirely, was central to the meaning and mobility of Humboldt's words and to his reputation as a man of action and of letters. [...] Nature Translated is important, thoughtfully written, and thought provoking. --Charles W. J. Withers, University of Edinburgh Journal of Historical Geography, 66 (2019) What Nature Translated makes clear, in its engaging and often forensic attention to the translator's art, is that studies of translation are of central importance in understanding how scientific and geographical ideas circulated among specialist and popular audiences in the nineteenth century. --Innes M. Keighren, Royal Holloway, University of London Scottish Geographical Journal, 2020

"Alison Martin's Nature Translated is a significant addition to Humboldt studies. [...] The work of translation, and in particular of female translators hitherto marginalised or overlooked entirely, was central to the meaning and mobility of Humboldt's words and to his reputation as a man of action and of letters. [...] Nature Translated is important, thoughtfully written, and thought provoking. --Charles W. J. Withers, University of Edinburgh ""Journal of Historical Geography, 66 (2019) "" What Nature Translated makes clear, in its engaging and often forensic attention to the translator's art, is that studies of translation are of central importance in understanding how scientific and geographical ideas circulated among specialist and popular audiences in the nineteenth century. --Innes M. Keighren, Royal Holloway, University of London ""Scottish Geographical Journal, 2020 """

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Alison E. Martin is Professor of British Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germersheim). She is the author of Moving Scenes: The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England, 1783-1830 in the Legenda monograph series Studies in Comparative Literature Vol 13.

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