A New Voyage Round the World
Author : William Dampier
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : William Dampier
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Woodes Rogers
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 1712
Category : Latin America
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Author : William Dampier
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 1699
Category : Buccaneers
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Author : William Dampier
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781376438093
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Author : George Forster
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780824820916
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. The two volumes of George Forster's work include substantially richer descriptions of encounters with island inhabitants than either his father's classic work (Observations Made during a Voyage round the World, UH Press, 1996) or Cook's official narrative, and its confident, even visionary, style incorporates a good deal of polemic, particularly in its criticism of the treatment of islanders by Cook's crew. In addition to the range and depth of its anthropological considerations, it provides a thrilling account of life aboard one of Cook's vessels. In its author's German translation, this work becomes a classic of natural history writing, but its original English version has long been neglected by anglophone scholars. This new scholarly edition makes this important book readily available for the first time since its initial publication more than two centuries ago. But it also presents the work in fresh terms, making it more accessible and relevant to a contemporary audience. The valuable introduction and annotations draw on the wide range of anthropological and ethnohistorical scholarship published since the 1960s and contextualize the book in relation to both the cultures of Oceania documented by the Forsters and the history of European voyaging in the Pacific. Appendixes include a translation of the introduction to the German edition and the polemical pamphlets by George Forster and the ship's astronomer William Wales, in which some of the book's more controversial claims were debated. A Voyage Round the World brings the disciplines of history and anthropology to bear on Cook's voyages in an illuminating and readable fashion. This edition will help complete the corpus of basic documents on Cook's voyages--a crucial resource for researchers in cultural, Pacific, and maritime history; archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians; and most recently for scholars engaged in revisionist interpretations of eighteenth-century exploration and colonization.
Author : William Dampier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0486145735
This fascinating travel and adventure book tells of pirate life and offers a rare look at the 17th-century botany and anthropology of Central and South America and the East Indies. 7 illustrations.
Author : Johann Reinhold Forster
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824817251
Johann Reinhold Forster's Observations Made During A Voyage Round The World, first published in 1778, is the most significant and substantial analysis of non-Western cultures to have emerged from the Cook voyages. It derived from Forster's appointment as naturalist on Cook's second voyage of 1772-1775, which dramatically extended European cartographic and ethnographic knowledge in the Pacific and the Antarctic.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 1725
Category : Voyages, Imaginary
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Author : George Anson
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1781
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Author : Otto Von Kotzebue
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752319070
Reproduction of the original: A New Voyage Round the World by Otto Von Kotzebue