Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : George Granville Campbell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385438209
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : George Campbell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2024-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385566398
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : Lord George Granville Campbell
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Challenger Expedition
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Matkin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780824814243
When HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth in 1872, a young assistant ship's steward, Joseph Matkin, was among the crew. Throughout the three-and-a-half-year voyage, Matkin maintained a journal from which he composed the many letters he sent home to his family in England. In his letters he commented on oceanographic operations, reported on shipboard events of special concern to the crew, and discussed at length the history, geography, and peoples of the many exotic and remote ports at which the ship called on its famous circumnavigation of the globe. The Challenger expedition established the foundations of oceanography and is second only to Darwin's voyage aboard the Beagle for its contributions to nineteenth-century science. The massive quantity of specimens and information acquired was written up in the fity-volume series of Challenger Reports, and personal accounts were published by officers and scientists. No ocean voyage had ever been so well documented. Yet no account of the seaman's life "below decks" was known to exist until the early 1980s, when two substantial collections of Matkin's letters surfaced. The letters are unique in their perspective and fascinating for their depth and literacy. Matkin, the son of a printer, was well aware of the significance of the voyage and strove to present a learned account in a proper style. His letters convey a wealth of detail about shipboard logistics, the crew's attitudes toward scientific operations, and officer-scientist-crew relations. Unwittingly, Matkin also illuminates himself and the middle-class society of which he was a part. Matkin's letters, published here for the first time, bring freshness and immediacy to this great Victorian scientific enterprise. Philip F. Rehbock has edited and annotated the letters, providing a particularly readable work of travel literature for anyone interested in oceanography, voyaging, maritime social history, and naval affairs.
Author : George Campbell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 1877
Category :
ISBN :
Author : George Campbell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 1881
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Lord George Granville Campbell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Voyages around the world
ISBN :
Author : Henry James
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0803240635
Volume 2. This volume contains letters written from December 21, 1877, to September 29, 1878, when, having settled comfortably into London life, James finished preparing the foundation for the career that would define his reputation as a critic and fiction writer. During this time James published "Daisy Miller" and "The Europeans" as well as other fiction, reviews, and cultural criticism.
Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 1995-07
Category :
ISBN : 0788119125
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674387812
In this, the second volume of Leon Edel's superb edition of the letters, we see Henry James in his thirties, pursuing his writing in Paris and London and finding his first literary successes in Daisy Miller and The Portrait of a Lady. The letters of these years, describing for family and friends in Boston the expatriate's days, reveal the usual wit and sophistication, but there is a new tone: James is relentlessly building a personal career and begins to see himself as a professional writer. Few other letters so fully document the process of an artist in the making. James was a social success in London: in Mr. Edel's words, "England speedily opened its arms to him, as it does to anyone who is at ease with the world." The letters of this period pull us into the atmosphere of Victorian England, its drawing rooms, manors, and clubs, and James's keen American eyes give us views of this world probably unique in our literary annals. He used these observations to forge his great international theme, the confrontation of the Old and New Worlds.