I listened to a very interesting radio drama/documentary this afternoon. It is based on Georg Forster's book, A Voyage Round the World, a travel narrative of his voyage on the Resolution with James Cook and their explorations of the Antarctic.
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Into the Ice World: Captain Cook and Georg Forster in the Antarctic to listen to the show.
It seems that Georg, like Stephen Maturin was a bit of a revolutionary as well as being a natural historian and a member of the Royal Society. This work even influenced Alexander von Humboldt.