TY - BOOK AU - Goldstein,J�urgen AU - Janusch,Annie TI - Georg Forster: voyager, naturalist, revolutionary SN - 9780226474816 AV - PT1865.F15 Z6613 2019 U1 - 838/.609 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Chicago, London PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Forster, Georg, KW - Authors, German KW - 18th century KW - Biography KW - Naturalists KW - Germany KW - Ethnologists KW - �Ecrivains allemands KW - 18e si�ecle KW - Biographies KW - Naturalistes KW - Allemagne KW - Ethnologues KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Literary KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - German KW - fast KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: Nature, a perilous word -- Beginnings: 1754-1772 -- Views of nature : the voyage around the world, 1772-1775 -- Interludes: 1776-1788 -- Views of the political : the Revolution, 1789-1793 -- The end : the great perplexity, 1793-1794 -- Epilogue: The mahogany trunk -- Notes -- English-language works -- Bibliography of the German edition -- Index N2 - 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 'A Voyage Round the World', 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 trailblazers of scientific and literary writing, most notably Alexander von Humboldt UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1941142 ER -