Publisher
Knopf
Date
June 9, 2026
Step into the life and times of George Forster, the eighteenth-century naturalist who sailed the world and made waves with his revolutionary ideas about humanity and freedom.
The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris by Andrea Wulf has an overall rating of Rave based on 8 book reviews.
Andrea Wulf racconta la vita di George Forster, naturalista settecentesco che ha traversato il mondo sviluppando una visione cosmopolita dell'umanità svincolata dai confini nazionali. In un'epoca di frammentazioni artificiali, la riscoperta di questa eredità universalista ricorda come la prospettiva globale e l'interconnessione rimangono fondamentali per costruire società più consapevoli.
Publisher
Knopf
Date
June 9, 2026
Step into the life and times of George Forster, the eighteenth-century naturalist who sailed the world and made waves with his revolutionary ideas about humanity and freedom.

A revelatory account of the life of George Forster, whose rejection of racial hierarchies stood out amongst his peers

George Forster (1754-94), the German-Polish polymath, was in every sense a late Enlightenment prodigy. He was just ten years old…

From Ernest Hemingway to WH Auden, from Iceland to the Pyrenees — a series of travel features that set out on a trail of…

How Louis L’Amour trekked all over, with books for company.

This novel is nominally about an interstellar voyage. It’s actually about sex, love, God, and the problem of evil.

Like Gulliver in Lilliput, “greatness” in the political realm depends on the existence of a group deemed puny or weak.