Does travel actually broaden the mind?

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Does travel actually broaden the mind?

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“The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”

Andrea Wulf joins us to discuss her new book The Traveller, about George Forster - the forgotten naturalist who sailed with Captain James Cook at seventeen and came back convinced of something radical: that all human beings are equal.

We ask why that idea was so scandalous in the Enlightenment, why Forster has been largely written out of history, and whether travel really does broaden the mind - or whether, as G.K. Chesterton suggested, it might do the opposite.

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Grateful to be introduced to Andrea Wulf (and her work -- will be picking up "The Traveller"), Gilbert Chesterton, and Agnes Collard. Deeply insightful and resonating episode. Can easily relate to Andrea's approach to travelling; particularly as I am a person born to parents who are of separate nationalities/cultures to each other, and then myself born/brought up in a third distinctive country/culture to either of their home countries/heritages.

Does Travelling Really Change Someone? Not Usually. Not Universally. It Depends Entirely On The Person.

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