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Am 3. September 2025 wird der 150. Geburtstag von Ferdinand Porsche gefeiert. Seine Verdienste um die deutsche, aber auch die internationale Autoindustrie können gar nicht hoch genug eingeschätzt werden.
Auch wenn der Name Porsche heute in erster Linie für sportliche Automobile aus Stuttgart steht, hat der Patriarch mit wegweisenden Erfindungen schon früh den Grundstein für diesen Erfolg gelegt. Er baute bereits 1902 das erste Hybridfahrzeug und ging als "Vater des Volkswagens" in die Geschichte ein. Von seinen technischen Meisterleistungen,...

From the biographer of Jane Goodall comes an eccentric blend of travels and adventures based on the underlying story of two men, sometime friends and allies, who uncover through personal experience the tragedy of animal extinctions in Africa and Asia. By turns ironic, funny, and tender, it contemplates changing landscapes and a vanishing world.

Over the last fifteen years, nature historian Dale Peterson has collaborated with photographer Karl Ammann to produce three books about apes, elephants, and giraffes. For this new memoir, Peterson recounts his travels with the iconoclastic Swiss...

Elephant Reflections brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illuminate one of nature's greatest and most original works of art: the elephant. The photographs move from the purely aesthetic to the informative, depicting animals who are at once enigmatic, individual, mysterious, elusive, and iconic. In riveting prose, Peterson introduces the work of field scientists in Africa and explains their recent astonishing discoveries. He then explores the natural history and conservation status of African...