{"product_id":"the-traveller-the-revolutionary-life-of-george-forster-and-his-search-for-humanity-by-andrea-wulf-9780241711217","title":"The Traveller : The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling' Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of Figuring\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revolutionary, by the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Forster was a man out of time: he journeyed to the far reaches of the known world and challenged the worldviews of eighteenth-century Europe with radical ideas about equality and freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCelebrated during his lifetime, he knew Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Alexander von Humboldt, but has since been largely forgotten by history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Traveller seeks to restore Forster as one of the great visionaries of his era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the age of seventeen he joined Captain Cook's second voyage, an exploration of vast contrasts from the icy world of Antarctica to the tropical islands of the South Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant mind driven by boundless curiosity, he studied the diverse nature, people and cultures he encountered and came back imbued with a deep belief in the equality of races.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn his return he was feted in England, France, Germany and Poland, using his fame to advocate freedom and human rights and argue against empire, racism and slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe admired strong and educated women and was proud to have daughters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book traces how, inspired by the French Revolution, he became a leader of the short-lived Republic of Mainz and was eventually forced into exile in Paris during the Reign of Terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing in Forster's footsteps from Europe to Tahiti, and drawing on a wealth of correspondence mostly unpublished in English, Andrea Wulf paints a portrait of a remarkable, passionate figure unbound by place, people or establishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe vividly conveys his extraordinary quest to find what connects us rather than what sets us apart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrea Wulf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57308641558901,"sku":"9780241711217","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9780241711217.jpg?v=1782120381","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/the-traveller-the-revolutionary-life-of-george-forster-and-his-search-for-humanity-by-andrea-wulf-9780241711217","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}