Andrea Wulf talks to Misha Glenny

Acclaimed historian and writer Andrea Wulf brings to life the extraordinary story of George Forster, the 18th-century writer and explorer known for documenting Captain Cook’s second voyage around the world. His writings on the people and cultures he encountered transformed how Europeans understood the wider world. Drawing on Forster’s vivid letters and personal accounts – much of them never-before published in English – Wulf reveals a man of dazzling intellect and visionary thinking. For history-lovers and those interested in forgotten figures who shaped the modern world. She talks to the host of the BBC’s In Our Time, Misha Glenny.