The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman, Esquire,
Author : Hildebrand Bowman
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 1778
Category : Utopias
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Author : Hildebrand Bowman
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 1778
Category : Utopias
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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1554812747
The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778) tells the story of a fictional midshipman abandoned in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, after a battle with Maori that claims the lives of ten of his shipmates. Inspired by an actual event on Captain Cook’s second voyage, Bowman’s adventures take him to increasingly sophisticated cultures—hunter/ gatherer, pastoral/nomadic, agricultural, and commercial—that dramatize stadial history in a Pacific setting. The work provocatively weaves together popular fascination with Cook’s voyages, sensational conceptions of the newly charted Pacific, contemporary ideas on human development and culture, topical satire on London life, and a fanciful castaway story. As an introduction to the cultural connections linking Pacific studies, the Scottish Enlightenment, and eighteenth-century English society and politics, The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman is unique in literary history and unsurpassed as a teaching text. Of equal importance, it marks the birth of a national literature. It is the first New Zealand novel. Historical appendices provide an exceptionally broad range of materials on the Grass Cove “massacre,” the eighteenth-century stadial theory of historical development, cannibalism, and contemporary depictions of the South Pacific and its indigenous peoples.
Author : Hildebrand Bowman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2021-09-10
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ISBN : 9781015150539
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Hildebrand Bowman
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 1778
Category : Utopias
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Author : Lieve Spaas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349136778
Robinson Crusoe explores Defoe's story, the legend it captured, the universal desire which underlies the myth and a range of modern re-writings which reveal a continued fascination with the problematic character of this narrative. Whether envisaged as an heroic rejection of the old world order, a piece of pre-colonialist propaganda or a tale raising archetypal problems of 'otherness' and 'inequality', the mythic value of Crusoe has become a pretext over many centuries for an examination of some of the fundamental problems of existence. This collection of essays examines, from a wide range of critical and philosophical perspectives, the cultural manifestations of Robinson Crusoe in different centuries, in different media, in different genres.
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 1778
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Author : Ralph Griffiths
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 1778
Category : Books
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Author : George Edward Griffiths
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Page : 610 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 1778
Category : Books
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Author : Hildebrand Bowman (Fictitious character)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1778
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Author : Tobias Smollett
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1778
Category : English literature
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