Andrea Wulf
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625 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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Obviously, there's not much to get in terms of plants.
So he's really annoyed about that, and he just writes these very angry long entries in his journal, like, how can we find anything here?
How am I going to be famous when I come back?
So they don't come back with enough really to make a kind of splash in the scientific world.
And what George Foster then does is he writes a travel account of this voyage, which is very different to earlier travel accounts.
So
He's a born storyteller.
His descriptions really sing off the page, but he's also a very intuitive ethnographer.
So where Christopher Columbus, for example, described or struggled to describe South America as anything but green.
I mean, literally the landscape is green.
The trees are green.
And the indigenous people are naked, which for Columbus means not civilized.
Foster is...
I mean, it even turns the icy world of Antarctica into shades of kind of purple, green and blue.
So he writes this book, which makes him famous because he brings these different worlds, but also these different people into the kind of palace of European culture.
houses.
And that is actually, I think, what they bring, what they come home with.
It's not their actual collections, except in terms, they bring back a lot of ethnographical collections.
So they come back with these extraordinary kind of mourning costumes from Tahiti, baskets from Tonga, weapons from Tana.
So
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