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<div><b>“Marvelous. . . . Wonderfully imaginative. . . . Sparkling.”—<i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br> &nbsp;<br> <b>“Stunning. . . . Read this book: in equal measure it will give you hope and trouble your dreams.”—Laura Dassow Walls, author of <i>Henry David Thoreau: A Life</i> and <i>Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt’s Shaping of America</i></b><br> <br> Georg Forster (1754–94) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator—and a revolutionary. Granted the extraordinary opportunity to sail around the world as part of Captain James Cook’s fabled crew, Forster touched icebergs, walked the beaches of Tahiti, visited far-flung foreign nations, lived with purported cannibals, and crossed oceans and the equator. Forster recounted the journey in his 1777 book&nbsp;<i>A Voyage Round the World</i>, a work of travel and science that not only established Forster as one of the most accomplished stylists of the time—and led some to credit him as the inventor of the literary travel narrative—but also influenced other German trail

Author

Goldstein, Jürgen

Publisher

Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226474816

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities