Author: George KeatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antelope (Packet)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
An Account of the Pelew Islands
Author: George KeatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antelope (Packet)
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean
Author: George KeatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pala language
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Account of the journey of the Antelope which was shipwrecked off the coast of the Palau Islands; the experiences of the crew on the Palau Islands; and their return to England with Prince Lee Boo, one of King Abba Thulle's sons; and of the death of Lee Boo from smallpox. Supplement: Account of the voyage to the Palau Islands of the Panther and Endeavour under the command of Captain John M'Cluer, to bring the news to King Abba Thulle of his son's death in England.
An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean
Author: George KeatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palau
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean
Author: Henry WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Palau
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
An Account of the Pelew Islands
Author: George KeatePublisher: Leicester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
In 1783 the East India Company packet, the Antelope, was wrecked on the Pelew Islands (modern Micronesia). Captain Henry Wilson and his crew developed unusually amicable relations with the Palauan inhabitants, and when they departed, the 'prince' Lee Boo went with them to Britain. Lee Boo was a figure of fashionable interest in London, at once highly regarded for his intelligence, yet treated also as an exotic curiosity. His death from smallpox in 1784 occasioned wide regretful comment. An Account of the Pelew Islands is based on extensive interviews with Captain Wilson, Lee Boo and other participants. This new edition reproduces the text and includes essays on its significance for late eighteenth-century European culture and on the Micronesian dimensions of the voyage and the book. Annotations explain and contextualize points of historical and ethnographic significance and the original fine engraved portraits, artifacts and charts as well as clear new maps are included.
Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica Et Orientalis
Author: William MarsdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica Et Orientalis. A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts Collected with a View of the General Comparison of Languages, and to the Study of Oriental Literature, by William Marsden, F. R. S. &c
Author: Bibliotheca MarsdenianaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Slavery and the Romantic Imagination
Author: Debbie LeePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The Romantic movement had profound social implications for nineteenth-century British culture. Among the most significant, Debbie Lee contends, was the change it wrought to insular Britons' ability to distance themselves from the brutalities of chattel slavery. In the broadest sense, she asks what the relationship is between the artist and the most hideous crimes of his or her era. In dealing with the Romantic period, this question becomes more specific: what is the relationship between the nation's greatest writers and the epic violence of slavery? In answer, Slavery and the Romantic Imagination provides a fully historicized and theorized account of the intimate relationship between slavery, African exploration, "the Romantic imagination," and the literary works produced by this conjunction. Though the topics of race, slavery, exploration, and empire have come to shape literary criticism and cultural studies over the past two decades, slavery has, surprisingly, not been widely examined in the most iconic literary texts of nineteenth-century Britain, even though emancipation efforts coincide almost exactly with the Romantic movement. This study opens up new perspectives on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, and Mary Prince by setting their works in the context of political writings, antislavery literature, medicinal tracts, travel writings, cartography, ethnographic treatises, parliamentary records, philosophical papers, and iconography.
Beyond the Capes; Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger, 1776-1877
Author: Ernest Stanley DodgePublisher:
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Category : Pacific Area
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Starting with Magellan and for three more centuries European expeditions crossed the Pacific Ocean mapping the area and dramatically changing the lives of the indigenous peoples.
George Keate, Esq., Eighteenth Century English Gentleman
Author: Kathryn Gilbert DappPublisher: Philadelphia
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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