The Traveller: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris with Andrea Wulf

In 1772, a seventeen-year-old naturalist named George Forster set sail with Captain Cook, venturing deep into the Antarctic Circle and across the South Pacific, studying people and cultures with an openness that was radical for his time. He would go on to lead the short-lived Republic of Mainz before being swept into exile during the Reign of Terror in Paris. Award-winning author Andrea Wulf brings Forster vividly back to life in her recently published book, The Traveller, introducing a remarkable, restless figure who believed, above all else, in what connects us as human beings rather than what sets us apart.