Georg Forster: Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary. 2019. 264 p. Hardcover.

Beginnings: 1754- 1772
Like a Blank Slate
First Impressions from Afar
The Right Place at the Right Time

2. View of Nature: The Voyage around the World, 1772-1775
Patterns of Perception
A Well-Told Tale
The Sea
Distances
Hardship
Perils in the Ice
Sunny Arcadia
First and Final Sightings
Noble Savage?
Among Maneaters
Bloodshed and Mayhem
A Community of Equals
The General Rights of Mankind

3. Interludes: 1776-1788
Blue Devils
Nature’s Balm
Physical Anthropology
A Debate about the Human Race
Political Sheet Lightning: Cook, the Statesman

4. Views of the Political: The Revolution, 1789-1793
Paris Unrest and the Political Public Sphere
Historical Signs of the New World: Revolution
Political Views of the Lower Rhine
Nature as Fate
The Principle of Political Change: Fermentation
The Liberty of French Mainz
The Mainz Republic
Experts on Subterranean Passages: Forster and Goethe

5. The End: The Great Perplexity, 1793-1794
The Monstrous Head of Revolution: Paris
The Cold Fever of Terror
Dancing on the Brink of Absurdity: Adam Lux
Back to Nature: Human Dignity
The Revolution Is the Revolution
Forsaken Like a Child
A Source of Strange Introspection

Epilogue: The Mahogany Trunk
Bibliography of the German Edition
Index