Author: Merval Hoare
Publisher: [St. Lucia, Q.] : University of Queensland Press
ISBN:
Category : Norfolk Island
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: Merval Hoare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norfolk Island
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Merval Hoare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norfolk Island
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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Author: Michael E. Hoare
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135188297X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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This presents the previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on Cook's second voyage. The main pagination of this volume and the three previous volumes in the set (Second series 152-154) is continuous. Overshadowed for nearly two hundred years in European scholarship by the achievements and reputation of his eldest son George Forster, J. R. Forster - principal naturalist on James Cook’s second voyage - was nevertheless recognised by many contemporaries as one of the ’universal geniuses’ of the late 18th century. His journal of the voyage offers many new insights, expressed at times in quite unrestrained language, into the day-to-day relationships, life and thinking and theory-testing on the second, and the most scientific and the most epic of Cook’s voyages. However, the circumstances of Forster’s career and personality were such that his work was dogged by debilitating disputes and vendettas. Consequently, important works such as this journal, which would have established him as the leading comparative anthropologist, linguist, geographer and zoologist of the Pacific, have thus far remained obscure and seldom-used manuscripts. Anthropologists, ethnolinguists, geographers, botanists, zoologists and medical and literary historians will find here much new observation and theory; for the two Forsters fashioned forces to influence Alexander von Humboldt and foretell Charles Darwin. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1981.

Author: Jeremy Daniel Holloway
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789061931249
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Author: Merval Hoare
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN: 9780702221002
Category : Norfolk Island
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Robert Hughes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307815609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. "One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the settling of Australia. Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the history of the country we thought we knew.

Author: Jim Specht
Publisher: Nicholson
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Author: Merval Hoare
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781875998562
Category : Norfolk Island
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Now in its fifth edition, "Norfolk Island: A revised and enlarged history 1774-1998" is an authoritative account of the islands fascinating history. Merval Hoare was a resident of Norfolk Island for fifty years and her deep interest in the islands history and conservation has resulted in this definitive work.

Author: Barry M. Gough
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317010027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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The importance of the Northwest Passage in the history of European and especially British expansion is well known. In the 40-year interlude of peace between Waterloo and the Crimean War, Britain could direct, with ease, a small portion of her fleet to polar discovery, and, by doing so, keep her Russian rival at bay, provide some employment and training for her officers, and contribute to the ends of science. Peard's journal of the voyage of Captain William Beechey , RN, and HMS Blossom to the Pacific and Arctic in 1825-8 is a lucid account of one of the most comprehensive British naval voyages to the Pacific since the days of Cook, Vancouver and Broughton. The Blossom made her way via Cape Horn to the Pacific, called at various places within the Pacific rim, and searched in vain for the expeditions of Captain William Edward Parry and John Franklin expected at the Bering Strait. George Peard, the first lieutenant of the Blossom, gives detailed descriptions of the places visited and the inhabitants, among them Pitcairn Island and the Gambier, Tahitian and Hawaiian groups. No less valuable are his accounts of Kamchatka, California, the Northwestern extremity of North America, and various parts of South America. Peard had an inquisitive, scientific mind, and he wrote a clear discursive narrative which shows that British exploration in the early Pax Britannica bore many fruits - scientific, commercial and strategic. It also showed that the Northwest passage had again eluded the British, in spite of the careful planning of the Admiralty, the Colonial office and the Hudson's Bay Company and the painstaking execution of orders by such naval officers as Parry, Franklin, Beechey and Peard himself Two of the plates are now printed at the end of the book.