A book with wonderful watercolor maps that trace the incredible round-the-world journeys of the famous German explorer. The desire to explore the Earth and understand nature pushed the adventurer Alexander von Humboldt to travel the world, observe it, and study it. Ahead of his time, he drew maps, measured mountains, collected and identified species, and gathered thousands of data points to try and discover the relationships between the forces of nature. Alexander von Humboldt was an tireless explorer of the, seemingly, unattainable.