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Recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment, the naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. The most successful German novel since Patrick Suskind's "Perfume", it's sold over 600,000 copies in Germany. There will be a major author tour and heavy promotion.
Synopsis
The story of two Enlightenment genuises who set out to measure the world.