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Georg Forster : voyager, naturalist, revolutionary / J�urgen Goldstein ; translated by Anne Janusch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226474816
  • 022647481X
Other title:
  • Georg Forster, voyager, naturalist, revolutionary
Uniform titles:
  • Georg Forster. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 838/.609 23
LOC classification:
  • PT1865.F15 Z6613 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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.

Translated from the German.

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