Episode

The Book Club: George Forster and the Search for Humanity

Podcast: Best of the Spectator
Published: Jun 10, 2026
Duration seconds: 2350
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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 throwing his lot in with the French Revolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.