“His account of the voyage was strikingly humane and anti–racist for its time. Yet Forster’s radicalism is more than a historical curiosity. It is an early example of how travel, when approached with curiosity and humility, reshapes our understanding of others. Who ‘the traveller’ is in the book remains wonderfully blurry – is it Forster? Wulf? Or the reader? Each route ends with the same conclusion: that travel can help to calibrate your moral compass. Deep hanging out with The Traveller is time well spent” – Nature, Summer Reading 2026