Description
A gifted naturalist and restless traveler, George Forster sets out from a childhood shaped by wild expeditions and precocious scholarship, then joins Captain Cook’s second voyage at seventeen—turning a scientific mission into a lifelong inquiry into what makes people human. Across the South Pacific and beyond, he records cultures with uncommon curiosity and argues, long before it became fashionable, for universal dignity, freedom, and equality. As his reputation grows, Forster’s radical ideas collide with the machinery of empire and the brutal realities of the French Revolution, pulling him into the dangerous currents of Paris during the Reign of Terror. Written with Andrea Wulf’s signature blend of narrative momentum and intellectual clarity, this biography-cum-adventure restores a largely overlooked figure whose belief in our shared humanity still feels startlingly modern.
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paperback
Random House
Published Jun 9, 2026
529 pages
ISBN: 9780593803400
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First Published
2026
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Traveler by Andrea Wulf.