The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris

In this enthralling narrative packed with travel and adventure, Wulf introduces readers to George Forster, an 18th century British naturalist and seafarer who sailed the world with Captain Cook but deserves to be known for so much more. As readers of The Invention of Nature know, Wulf's gift is the ability to marry meticulously researched history with deep emotion and exciting storytelling. In engaging and illuminating prose, Wulf highlights how Forster was dizzyingly ahead of his time in both his scientific insights and understanding of human nature. For fans of Wulf's The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World and Hampton Sides's The Wide Wide Sea.