Author: James CookPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734023149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World by James Cook
A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World
Author: James CookPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734023149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World by James Cook
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Vol 2
Author: James CookA Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2
Author: James CookPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781546733584
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2 By James Cook
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2
Author: CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2 James Cook
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World
Author: James CookPublisher:
ISBN: 1406863815
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
First Volume of the 1772 account which includes Captain Furneaux's narrative of his proceedings in the adventure during the separation of the ships.
A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World
Author: James CookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
On spine: Second voyage by Cook.
A Voyage Round the World, 2 vols.
Author: George ForsterPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824820916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
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.
A Voyage To Terra Australis
Author: Matthew FlindersPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752361417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: A Voyage To Terra Australis by Matthew Flinders
The Adventures of a South Pole Pig
Author: Chris KurtzPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547634552
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Flora the pig was born for adventure: "If it's unexplored and needs to get dug up, call me. I'm your pig," she says. The day Flora spots a team of sled dogs is the day she sets her heart on becoming a sled pig. Before she knows it, she's on board a ship to Antarctica for the most exhilarating--and dangerous--adventure of her life. This poignant novel of a purposeful pig is sure to become a favorite with any young readers who have ever dreamed of exploring the great beyond.
A Cruising Voyage Round the World
Author: Woodes RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description