continent s indigenous peoples his fascination with its natural beauty his discoveries and his observations about manmade disasters illustrator lillian milk sure many of whom original texts and drawings into this wonderful graphic novel. so in a way he became the collaborator so i wrote it lilian drew it and about every single page there something that did his manuscripts his his engravings his original plan specimens his maps is so his his handwriting is everywhere. untrainable spent a decade researching the life of alexander from her home in archives libraries and private collections she traveled the world following in his footsteps to find out what he saw and felt on his expeditions she learned about the hardships he endured and the diversity of nature there s no doubt that alexander from whom bolt was
think that something that. something we could. have that we could probably use today. alexander was born to wealthy parents in 769 after a brief career working for the pression government he used his inheritance to embark on the adventure of a lifetime and set off for america at the age of 30 accompanied by the french explorer and. travel to venezuela and from there to cuba colombia peru mexico and ecuador he collected plants specimens observed animals and became the 1st european to almost reach the peak of the chimborazo volcano in the end at the time it was thought to be the highest mountain in the world later wrote $29.00 books about his trip. really cultivated this. daring he was he was the best. publicist to machine ever he would write
would under a of wolves curation exhibition here if given a chance. off last fall i m glad i m not a curator just a historian so i don t have to do this but i think i would. put something in there that deals with this link between the art and the sciences that bridge that we ve completely forgotten so we tend to draw the sharp line between you know we see them as 2 different disciplines for someone like home was very much united it and i think that s really missing at the moment so i would look at that. and also because it s not just alexander it s also will have his name they both have the name what so it should be also something about languages which i think you could bring liked poetry science arts stuff like that together alexander s older brother
the end of 2014 this was the moment when i was just handing over my manuscript for the invention of nature. so i couldn t use them. for the imagination which was not a problem in terms of content we cause we have transcriptions but seeing the actual paper pages 4000 pages with hundreds of little sketches and drawings i knew i wanted to do a book that would also show artistic visual side because he did not just understand nature intellectually but also visually so that s when i decided to do whatever you want to call it a kind of graphic novel or graphic nonfiction illustrated. journey of discovery or whatever it is but something that would show his stuff this trial and based on the adventures of alexander from home bold shows that the book does more than summarize homebuilt south american adventure he recounts his 1st encounter with the
including the home both current which flows along the western coast of south america there s also the penguin this lily is named after him even. name. it s weird when you go to america where hardly anyone knows alexander from home there are so many places named after their best for example there are 13 towns named after him there are 4 counties there s a bay there is a river there is a university named after him there s the cheese some some younger. kids kind of teenagers early twenty s people know his name because the best marianna comes from humboldt county so they have heard is there but they don t know who he is 150 years ago it was a different story tonight 16910 years after his death and on the 100th anniversary