What happens when curiosity takes you to the edge of the known world, and changes how you see humanity forever? Join award-winning historian Andrea Wulf to discover the extraordinary life of eighteenth-century explorer and thinker George Forster. As a teenager he sailed on James Cook’s second voyage, travelling from the icy Antarctic seas to the lush islands of the South Pacific; an experience that would shape his radical ideas about equality, freedom and what unites us as human beings. Celebrated in his lifetime and connected to figures such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Mary Wollstonecraft, Forster’s story is one of adventure, intellect and revolutionary spirit. Andrea Wulf brings this remarkable but often overlooked figure vividly back to life in a talk that explores politics, exploration and a powerful search for humanity across cultures and continents.