George Forster (traveller)
George Forster (died 1792) was an English traveller and civil servant of the
Life
In 1782 Forster undertook a journey that began in
In 1792 he was sent on an embassy to the
Works
He published in England Sketches of the Mythology and Customs of the Hindoos (84 pp., 1785); and on his return to India he wrote an account of his journey, the first volume of which was published at Calcutta in 1790. The narrative of his journey was completed from his papers, and published in London by an unknown editor as A Journey from Bengal to England through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia by the Caspian Sea (2 vols. 1798).[1]
References
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Forster, George". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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