Download or read book A Voyage Round the World 2 vols written by George Forster and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World written by David Henry and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World Performed by English Navigators Faithfully Extracted from the Journals of the Voyagers written by and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An historical account of all the voyages round the world performed by English navigators Faithfully extracted by David Henry from the journals of the voyagers etc written by David HENRY (Printer.) and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World Performed by English Navigators Including Those Lately Undertaken by Order of His Present Majesty The Whole Faithfully Extracted from the Journals of the Voyagers In Four Volumes written by David Henry and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Cruising Voyage Round the World written by Woodes Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All Around the World written by William Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage Round the World written by William Betagh and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Voyage Round the World" by William Betagh. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World written by Andrew Kippis and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World written by Johann Reinhold Forster and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Voyages of Captain Cook written by James Cook and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1999 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cook's three voyages of discovery, which took place between 1768 and 1779, are among the most remarkable achievements in the history of exploration. Cook charted vast areas of the globe with astonishing accuracy, and the voyages also made a significant contribution towards solving some of the great problems of cartography and navigation.With crews containing gifted sailors and navigators, as well as botanists, painters and scientists, Cook provides the link between the speculative, profit-hungry voyages of the Elizabethan seafarers and the scientific expeditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Download or read book A Collection of Voyages Round the World Containing a Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook s First Second Third and Last Voyages in the Years 1768 1780 written by and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1740 44 written by George Anson and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blue Latitudes written by Tony Horwitz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A Pulitzer Prize–winning author retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook: “Alternately hilarious, poignant, and insightful.” —Seattle Times Captain James Cook’s three epic journeys in the eighteenth century were the last great voyages of discovery. His ships sailed 150,000 miles, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Tasmania to Oregon, from Easter Island to Siberia. When Cook set off for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in Hawaii in 1779, the map of the world was substantially complete. Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic, vividly recounts Cook’s voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice. He also relives Cook’s adventures by following in his wake to places such as Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef to discover Cook’s embattled legacy in the present day. Signing on as a working crewman aboard a replica of Cook’s vessel, Horwitz experiences the thrill and terror of sailing a tall ship. He also explores Cook the man: an impoverished farm boy who broke through the barriers of his class and time to become the greatest navigator in British history, whose voyages helped create the “global village” we know today. “With healthy doses of both humor and provocative information, the book will please fans of history, exploration, travelogues and, of course, top-notch storytelling.” —Publishers Weekly “Horwitz retells the sailor’s story and tries to re-create first contact from the point of view of the locals—Tahitians, Maoris, Aleuts, Hawaiians, and others—and judge the legacy of his landing . . . thought-provoking . . . brims with insight.” —Booklist “A rollicking read that is also a sneaky work of scholarship . . . new and unexpected insights into the man who out-discovered Columbus. A terrific book.” —Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award winner and New York Times–bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea “Well-researched, gripping, and peppered with humorous passages.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Part Cook biography, part travelogue, and very much a stroke of genius.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
Download or read book A Collection of Voyages Round the World written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These works which detail the experiences of the voyages of Captain James Cook from 1772 until his untimely death in the Hawaiian Islands in early 1779. These volumes were written not by Cook, but by those who accompanied him.
Download or read book Round About the Earth written by Joyce E. Chaplin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2012.
Download or read book Cook written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth chronicle of Captain James Cook's three historic voyages recounts his expeditions charting the eastern Australian coast, exploring the northwest coast of North America, circumnavigating New Zealand, and discovering many Pacific islands, setting his accomplishments against the backdrop of the colonialism of his era.
