A new edition of the event "Science Wednesday with Mădălin Bunoiu and his guests" will take place on Wednesday, on the topic "Expedition and adventure - a journey in nature's laboratories". The guest of this meeting will be the beloved biologist and explorer Alexandru Stermin, who will take the public to remote and less known, but extremely interesting places.
The discussion will start from the following volumes:
Fallen from the jungle. Tales of an Explorer, Humanitas Publishing House, 2022
“Looking at the jungle, I entered a state that I had always intuited, that I had questioned in my mind countless times, but which, until then, I had not perceived so clearly and complexly. I felt his call! The call of the jungle did not come from the forest: it came from me. It was the call of the jungle in my being. But to get to the jungle inside me, I had to step into the one in front of me. I took, by virtue of this emotion, the first step in what was to be the adventure of my life and, perhaps, of my death." — ALEXANDRU N. STERMIN
Journey around man, Humanitas Publishing House, 2024nd edition, XNUMX
"If I wasn't Cătălin Gruia, I would have liked to be Alexandru Stermin. You will understand why I say this if you read the pages between these covers. I highly recommend you do it - you won't just discover a book, you'll discover yourself, you'll learn more about who we are, where we come from and where we're going." — CĂTĂLIN GRUIA, editor-in-chief of National Geographic
The look of the orangutan or About the animal in us, Humanitas Publishing House, first edition, 2024
This book, like the others written by Alexandru Stermin, is the story of a journey. Embarking, along with the narrator, on an adventure sparked by the sight of an orangutan in a zoo on the shores of the Baltic Sea, we reach far in time and space. We venture from the world of myth into the reality of the world's largest swamp, the Brazilian Pantanal. From exuberant Rio de Janeiro, we follow Darwin's footsteps to the fabulous Galápagos Islands. Along the way, we explore the intimacy of ourselves and other life, we dare to look into the eyes of the animal within us - just, just, we will find the answer to the question hidden in the wilderness of this book:
Do we have a life, or are we the Life?
How I Became a Wizard From an explorer's notebook, Humanitas Junior Publishing House, 2023. Illustrations by Mădălina Surducan, recommended age 6+
Passionate biologist and tireless traveler in space, in time and in himself, Alexandru N. Stermin is, above all, a man who loves the magic of the world around him, which he traverses with his step and examines with always curious eyes. Through these notes, he invites you to accompany him on a fabulous journey through the world, from the past of mankind to the recent present and from the largest swamp in Transylvania to the Amazonian jungle. Are you ready?
ALEXANDRU N. STERMIN is a biologist and explorer. He teaches courses on comparative vertebrate anatomy, ethology, bioethics and human ecology at the Faculty of Biology and Geology of Babeș-Bolyai University. He has degrees in biology and theology, completed a master's degree in philosophy and a training program in positive psychotherapy. He participated in expeditions in the jungle of South America and in Siberia, he was a scholar at the University of Greifswald and at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He is actively involved in the popularization of science and nature conservation. In 2015 he contributed to the Fauna of Romania (Birds) series published by the Romanian Academy. In 2017, he released his first book, Jurnalul unui ornithologus. He writes articles in Sinteza and National Geographic magazines. In 2021, he received the Excellence Award from Babeș-Bolyai University, for cultural involvement and openness to the community.
