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The Resolution journal of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775. Volume III / edited by Michael E. Hoare.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; no. 154.
- Hakluyt Society, second series ; no. 154
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cook, James, 1728-1779--Travel.
- Cook, James.
- Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798.
- Forster, Johann Reinhold.
- Resolution (Ship).
- Voyages around the world--Early works to 1800.
- Voyages around the world.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 371-554 p. : ill. maps.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hakluyt Society : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 1982.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This presents the previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on Cook's second voyage. The main pagination of this volume and the three other volumes in the set (Second series 152-153, 155) 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 Cooks 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 Cooks voyages. However, the circumstances of Forsters 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-283-47996-6
- 9786613479969
- 1-4094-3253-X
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