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MEASURING

THE WORLD

BY DANIEL KEHLMANN

QUERCUS, pounds 7.99

This German bestseller is an entertaining jeu d'esprit with a sharp intellectual and satirical edge. Daniel Kehlmann takes two real 18th-century figures: the scientist Alexander von Humboldt, explorer of uncharted territories ...

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