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ANDREA WULF was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She is the author of Magnificent Rebels, The Founding Gardeners, Brother Gardeners, and the New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature, which has been published in twenty-seven languages and won fifteen international literary awards. Wulf has written for many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. She is a member of PEN America and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.
""George Forster, a celebrity intellectual in his day, was a man far ahead of his time. In this thrilling biography-cum-adventure story, Andrea Wulf deftly shows us how Forster’s far-flung wanderings inspired and nurtured one of the greatest minds of the Enlightenment era."" —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of The Wide Wide Sea ""The dauntless Andrea Wulf has gone adventuring, and returned with this enthralling account of young, nomadic George Forster. Her superb narrative shimmers with scholarly detail and magnificently sustains the 'breathless exhilaration' of his journeys, his extraordinarily liberal and observant mind and the intense emotional drama of his life. A combination of panoramic travelogue and tender psychological study animated at every point by Wulf’s own travels and research, The Traveler is hypnotically successful and wonderfully restores George Forster as a major historical figure of early European Romanticism."" —Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder “A remarkable biography of a remarkable man. Wulf’s books are always horizon-expanding, but with this one she has excelled herself. I loved it!” —Tom Holland, cohost of The Rest Is History and author of Rubicon “A book belonging to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling—a work of devotion and rigor celebrating the courage to look past the horizon of an era's givens and refuse to take the figments of a culture for facts.” —Maria Popova, author of Traversal “With her beautiful, sensitive, impressively researched biography of George Forster, Andrea Wulf brilliantly narrates the novelistic life of a uniquely curious scholar at a pivotal moment in Western Civilization, a man who embodied the notion that travel breeds empathy. Forster's unquestioning love for his fellow human being, as recounted by Wulf, is a much-needed antidote to the vitriol that courses through present times.” —Julian Sancton, author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth ""As George Forster circumnavigates the globe, Wulf circumnavigates the Enlightenment mind in all its complexity, making for a doubly brilliant and breathtaking adventure."" —Sue Prideaux, author of Wild Thing
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