A Voyage Round the World, 2 vols.University of Hawaii Press, 1. 1. 2000 - Počet stran: 910 George Forster's A Voyage Round the World presents a wealth of geographic, scientific, and ethnographic knowledge uncovered by Cook's second journey of exploration in the Pacific (1772-1775). Accompanying his father, the ship's naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, on the voyage, George proved a knowledgeable and adept observer. The lively, elegant prose and critical detail of his account, based loosely on his father's journal, make it one of the finest works of eighteenth-century travel literature and an account of prime importance in the history of European contact with Pacific peoples. The Forsters' publications reveal the sophistication and enthusiasm they brought to their observation of Polynesian peoples as well as a sensitivity to the moral ambiguities of contact. |
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Illustrations | ix |
Preface | xiii |
Acknowledgments | xv |
INTRODUCTION | xvi |
George Forsters Life and Work | xix |
Cooks Second Voyage and George Forsters Voyage | xxi |
A Reply to Mr Waless Remarks | xxvii |
George Forsters Responses to Oceania | xxix |
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DeparturePassage from Plymouth to MadeiraDescription of that | 17 |
CHAPTER II | 31 |
Stay at the New Years IslandsDiscovery of Lands to | 35 |
CHAPTER III | 46 |
CHAPTER IV | 61 |
CHAPTER V | 79 |
CHAPTER VI | 110 |
The Reception and Influence of the Voyage | xxxvi |
Note on the Text and Annotations | xlv |
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD | 1 |
Preface | 5 |
CHAPTER VII | 133 |
Notes to Volume I | 425 |
Book I | 436 |
The Introduction to George Forsters Reise | |