num_pages: 259
description: Rare book
language: English
title: Measuring the World
titlecomplete: Measuring the World
characters: Alexander von Humboldt, Eugen Gauss, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Aimé Bonpland
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, German Literature, Historical, Roman, Germany, Historical Fiction, Travel, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 18006
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Carol Brown Janeway, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize)
category: Shortlist
publisher: Quercus