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He sailed with Captain Cook. He sat with Benjamin Franklin. He taught Alexander von Humboldt how to see. None of it taught him how to live.
Mainz, in the winter of 1792. The French hold the city, the Prussian army is behind the hills, and Georg Forster—thirty-eight, librarian, the most famous traveler in the German lands—sits behind curtained windows reading a book he wrote at twenty-two: three years with Cook, the ice at the bottom of the world, Tahiti, the stone giants of Easter Island. At seventeen he measured everything and wrote it all down. Now he reads what the boy refused to see—that describing the world is also a way of keeping out of it.
Outside, the same question wears a different face. The French Revolution has crossed the Rhine, and a republic is being declared—the first on German soil. Fifteen years earlier, at Passy, an old man named Franklin had told him that America was fighting thirty years too soon; Forster believes in this republic more than he trusts it. To sign is to be called a traitor at every bridge over the Rhine. Not to sign is to have watched, once more, from the rail. His wife has taken the children to Strasbourg. His closest friend has gone with her. Paris is calling.
He signs.
What follows is the story of a man who was right too early—about empire, about slavery, about what a people may ask of those who rule them—and who paid in the one currency he had never learned to spend: himself. Within a year he is dead in Paris, thirty-nine years old, a traitor in his own country and a footnote in ours. His pupil, a twenty-year-old named Humboldt, would carry his way of seeing to the Americas and become the most celebrated scientist of the age. The teacher did not live to see it.
A novel about a man who measured half the earth and never learned how to sit still and be loved.
For readers of Measuring the World, The Signature of All Things, and The Invention of Nature: a literary novel of the Enlightenment, told in Forster’s own voice and close to the surviving record—and where the record falls silent, as it might have been. Wherever the narrator quotes his own A Voyage Round the World (London, 1777), this edition gives Forster’s English exactly as he printed it. With 51 period illustrations, a map of the voyage, an afterword on what is documented and what is invented, and a note by the author on translating his own book.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He sailed with Captain Cook. He met Benjamin Franklin. He taught Alexander von Humboldt how to see the world. But he never learned how to live in it.Mainz, 1792.French troops occupy the city. A Prussian army waits beyond the Rhine. Georg Forster's wife has left with their children. And behind curtained windows, one of Europe's most celebrated travelers opens the book that made him famous.He was seventeen when he sailed around the world with Captain James Cook.For three years, Forster crossed oceans no European had fully mapped, pushed into the Antarctic ice, walked the shores of Tahiti and New Zealand, stood beneath the stone giants of Easter Island, and witnessed slavery, war, hunger, beauty, and violence at the far edges of the known world.He measured coastlines. Collected plants. Recorded languages. Classified people.He believed he was describing the world.Twenty years later, reading his own words, he begins to see what the young man could not.The people he called savages had names he never asked. The islands Europeans claimed already belonged to others. Curiosity could become possession. Science could become conquest. And a man could spend his life understanding distant peoples while remaining a stranger to those closest to him.Outside his window, the same questions have followed him home.A revolution has reached Germany.Forster believes in liberty-but he has seen too much of enlightened men who are certain they know what is best for everyone else. He knows that noble ideas can arrive with soldiers. He knows that choosing a side may cost him his country, his family, and his name.His wife is gone. His marriage is over. His homeland may soon call him a traitor.Paris is waiting.He signs anyway.What follows is the extraordinary story of a man caught between the Enlightenment and the modern world: Cook's great voyage, the first encounters between Europeans and Pacific societies, the birth of revolution on German soil, and the young Alexander von Humboldt, who would carry Forster's way of seeing across the Americas and become one of the most celebrated scientists of his age.But at its heart, this is a far more intimate story.A story about a man who could describe an iceberg, a volcano, a language, a civilization-and could not understand the woman sitting across the table from him.A literary historical novel about exploration, empire, revolution, marriage, and the distance between seeing the world and understanding it.For readers of The Invention of Nature, Wolf Hall, and Blue Latitudes.Based closely on Georg Forster's surviving books, journals, and letters, The Man Who Described the World blends documented history with fiction where the record falls silent. Passages from Forster's 1777 A Voyage Round the World appear in his original English. Includes 52 period illustrations and an afterword distinguishing documented events from invention.He measured half the earth and never learned how to sit still and be loved. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798173183774
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He sailed with Captain Cook. He met Benjamin Franklin. He taught Alexander von Humboldt how to see the world. But he never learned how to live in it.Mainz, 1792.French troops occupy the city. A Prussian army waits beyond the Rhine. Georg Forster's wife has left with their children. And behind curtained windows, one of Europe's most celebrated travelers opens the book that made him famous.He was seventeen when he sailed around the world with Captain James Cook.For three years, Forster crossed oceans no European had fully mapped, pushed into the Antarctic ice, walked the shores of Tahiti and New Zealand, stood beneath the stone giants of Easter Island, and witnessed slavery, war, hunger, beauty, and violence at the far edges of the known world.He measured coastlines. Collected plants. Recorded languages. Classified people.He believed he was describing the world.Twenty years later, reading his own words, he begins to see what the young man could not.The people he called savages had names he never asked. The islands Europeans claimed already belonged to others. Curiosity could become possession. Science could become conquest. And a man could spend his life understanding distant peoples while remaining a stranger to those closest to him.Outside his window, the same questions have followed him home.A revolution has reached Germany.Forster believes in liberty-but he has seen too much of enlightened men who are certain they know what is best for everyone else. He knows that noble ideas can arrive with soldiers. He knows that choosing a side may cost him his country, his family, and his name.His wife is gone. His marriage is over. His homeland may soon call him a traitor.Paris is waiting.He signs anyway.What follows is the extraordinary story of a man caught between the Enlightenment and the modern world: Cook's great voyage, the first encounters between Europeans and Pacific societies, the birth of revolution on German soil, and the young Alexander von Humboldt, who would carry Forster's way of seeing across the Americas and become one of the most celebrated scientists of his age.But at its heart, this is a far more intimate story.A story about a man who could describe an iceberg, a volcano, a language, a civilization-and could not understand the woman sitting across the table from him.A literary historical novel about exploration, empire, revolution, marriage, and the distance between seeing the world and understanding it.For readers of The Invention of Nature, Wolf Hall, and Blue Latitudes.Based closely on Georg Forster's surviving books, journals, and letters, The Man Who Described the World blends documented history with fiction where the record falls silent. Passages from Forster's 1777 A Voyage Round the World appear in his original English. Includes 52 period illustrations and an afterword distinguishing documented events from invention.He measured half the earth and never learned how to sit still and be loved. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798173183774
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