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Author: William Henry Giles Kingston
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Author: George Forster
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824820916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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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 Henry Giles Kingston
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Author: William Henry Giles Kingston
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Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Author: William Henry Giles Kingston
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Author: William Henry Giles Kingston
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Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Author: William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781354555637
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Author: Woodes Rogers
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Author: W. H. G. Kingston
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Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Author: William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146559664X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The day arrived. A post-chaise stood in front of the old grey manor-house. I have it all before me. The pointed gablesÑthe high-pitched, dark weather; stained roofÑthe numberless latticed windowsÑthe moat, now dry, which had once served to keep out a body of CromwellÕs horseÑthe tall elms, which had nestled many a generation of rooksÑthe clump of beech trees, and the venerable wide-spreading oakÑthe broad gravelled court on one side, and the velvety lawn on the other, sloping away down to the fine, large, deep fish-pond, whose waters, on which I had obtained my first nautical experiences, as seen through the green foliage, were sparkling brighter than ever under the deep blue of the summer sky. At the hall door were assembled all those I loved on earthÑand dearly, too, I loved them. My mother, as good and kind a mother as ever nursed a somewhat numerous and noisy progeny; my sisters, dear, sweet, good girls; and half-a-dozen brothers, honest, generous, capital fellows; our father, tooÑsuch a father!Ñwe always agreed that no one could come up to him. Other fellows might have very good fathers, but they were not equal to him! He could be just like one of us at cricket, or out fishing, or shooting, and yet he was always right, and there was not a finer-looking gentleman in the county, and that every one said. We were all at home for the Midsummer holidaysÑthat is to say, we boys; our mother was not a person to let her girls go to school. Who could say that we were not met for the last time in our lives?
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