From the Costa Prize-winning author of The Invention of Nature, Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today

A JM Classics edition of the multi-award-winning biography that rediscovered Alexander von Humboldt's extraordinary legacy, introduced by Merlin Sheldrake