Jul 28, 2026 · 56 min · 12 segments
This week the award winning biographer Andrea Wulf takes us aboard Captain Cook's HMS *Resolution* to meet one of the most compelling of the ship's company: George Forster. When he embarked with Cook…
Andrea WulfGuest
Peter MooreHost
Welcome to Travel Through Time, the podcast made in partnership with Ace Cultural Tours.
Andrea Wolfe is one of our foremost writers on the energised and revolutionary age we call the Enlightenment.
And this summer, she's produced an invigorating account of the life of one of its lesser known but most compelling figures.
It's called The Traveller, the revolutionary life of George Forster and his search for humanity.
As a teenager, Forster sailed with Captain Cook to the Pacific and he distinguished himself there with the depth of his learning and the sensitivity of his soul.
His life thereafter was truly epic and I spoke to Andrea about one year in it just the other day.
We're going to talk today about a wonderfully clever, sensitive, active man today, George Forster, who's the biographical subject of your new book, which I've brought into my office with me.
It's The Traveller, The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and His Search for Humanity.
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