Andrea Wulf: George Forster and the Search for Humanity

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Episode: Andrea Wulf: George Forster and the Search for Humanity

Pub date: 2026-06-10

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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Andrea Wulf, talking about her fascinating new book, The Traveller: George Forster and the Search for Humanity. Andrea tells me about the now-forgotten adventurer who sailed with Captain Cook, toured Europe as an intellectual celebrity and sparred with Kant and Rousseau over race and human civilisation – before…