Andrea Wulf
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625 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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You know, he's kind of open to other ideas.
But I think it's also because he was a traveler.
He was always...
And for the rest of his life, he remains like this.
He's always in transit.
He's this perpetual outsider.
If you are an outsider yourself, you tend to be nicer to other people who are outsiders.
And he does not feel, he doesn't even know which country he belongs to because by the time he's 17, he's lived in Russia, in Prussia, in England, and then he goes off on the resolution.
So there's an open-mindedness, I think, that comes from a very, very much not being part of a nation.
which is something I think we sometimes forget today when everybody seems to be crawling behind their kind of national boundaries.
He was 17 when he joined and he was 20 when they came back.
So at the age of 20, he has seen more of the world than most people will ever do.
So they sailed 75,000 miles, roughly the same amount as if they had gone three times around the equator.
They spent a lot of time...
in the icy polar seas of Antarctica, because they were looking for the fabled southern continent, which
many scientists back then believed had to exist to counterbalance the landmass in the northern hemisphere.
So, I mean, just imagine, you know, being on a sailing boat, and, you know, a sailing boat which can't reverse, being in a kind of, you know, amongst icebergs, not a great thing.
It's freezing cold, so cold that the ropes are kind of frozen stiff, the sails are like metal plates.
They wear woolen clothes, which is...
always wet, never dry.
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