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Exploration & exchange : a South Seas anthology, 1680-1900 / edited by Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith, and Nicholas Thomas.
LIBRA DU19 .E95 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travel writing.
- Oceania--Discovery and exploration.
- Oceania.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Travel writing--Oceania.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Exploration and exchange
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- European encounters with Pacific peoples often proved as wrenching to the Europeans as to the natives. This anthology gathers some of the most vivid accounts of these cultural exchanges for the first time, placing the works of well-known figures such as Captain James Cook and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside the writings of lesser-known explorers, missionaries, beachcombers, and literary travelers who roamed the South Seas from the late seventeenth through the late nineteenth centuries. Through their detailed commentary on each piece and their choice of selections, the editors emphasize the mutuality of impact of these colonial encounters and the continuity of Pacific cultures that still have the power to transform visitors today.
- Contents:
- The discovery of New Holland / William Dampier
- Lionel Wafer crosses Darien / Lionel Wafer
- Richard Simson at Juan Fernandez / Richard Simson
- Commodore Anson lands at Juan Fernandez / George Anson
- Byron and the Patagonian giants / John Byron
- The discovery of Tahiti / Samuel Wallis
- The unfortunate compiler / James Cook, Joseph Banks, John Hawkeswortb
- Providential cannibalism / Johann Reinhold Forster
- William Wales makes observations / William Wales
- Benevolence on the beach / George Keate
- Resident observer / James Morrison
- The brethren and the 'Tayos" / William Wilson
- Falling from grace / George Vason
- A stranger in a strange country / Edward Robarts
- The violence of the beach / Samuel Patterson, Richard Siddons
- Missiles and missives / William Mariner
- Unutterable practices / William Ellis
- Property and providence / John Williams
- Tapu and conceit in the Marquesas / David Darling
- Philanthropic sympathy and the interests of commerce / Abby Jane Morrell
- Among the cannibals / Mary Wallis
- Tapa and Muru in New Zealand / Frederick Maning
- A yankee at the court of Captain Cook / Mark Twain
- Quite alone in a mountain village / Constance F. Gordon-Cumming
- Belated first contact / Robert Louis Stevenson
- Cannibal fashions / Fanny van der Grift Stevenson
- "That link of history" / Henry Adams, Ari'i Taimai
- The ebbing of the tide / Louis Becke.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226468453
- 0226468461
- OCLC:
- 43728982
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