The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for HumanityAndrea Wulf

The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity

Baillie Gifford · 2026 · Longlist

Allen LaneBiography & Memoir History Nonfiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Baillie Gifford Prize	2026	Longlist

About This Book

A biography of the eighteenth-century explorer and revolutionary George Forster, who joined Captain Cook's second voyage as a teenager and later searched for a more humane politics in revolutionary Europe. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2026.

About the Author

Andrea WulfGerman-British

Andrea Wulf (born 1967) is a German-British historian and writer specializing in non-fiction biographies of explorers and scientists. She is best known for The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (2015), which won the Costa Biography Award, Royal Society Science Book Prize, LA Times Book Prize, and many others; other notable works include Founding Gardeners and Magnificent Rebels. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2018, her books have been New York Times bestsellers and translated into numerous languages. Read more →