The Traveller is one of the 40 Best Summer Books in the Sunday Times.

“At the age of 20 George Forster had accompanied Captain Cook across the world. He painted what he saw – dolphins, penguins and parrots – and achieved fame when he published A Voyage Round the World. He knew Goethe, Benjamin Franklin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and argued against slavery and racism. ‘His was, frankly, an almost indecently interesting life story,” James Marriott wrote. ‘How many lives encompass Maori tribes, Easter Island, Habsburg Austria and the French Revolution? Andrea Wulf tells it all with the expected panache’.”