A Voyage Round the World, 2 vols. / / George Forster; ed. by Nicholas Thomas, Oliver Berghof.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Forster, George,
• HerausgeberIn: Berghof, Oliver,; Thomas, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (924 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Note on the Text and Annotations --; A Voyage Round the World --; A Voyage Round the World. BOOK I --; CHAPTER I. Departure-Passage from Plymouth to Madeira-Description of that Island --; CHAPTER II. The Passage from Madeira to the Cape Verd Islands, and from thence to the Cape of Good Hope --; CHAPTER III. Stay at the Cape of Good Hope- Account of that Settlement --; CHAPTER IV. Run from the Cape to the Antarctic Circle; first Season spent in high Southern Latitudes- Arrival on the Coast of New Zeeland --; CHAPTER V. Stay at Dusky Bay; Description of it, and Account of our Transactions there --; CHAPTER VI. Passage from Dusky Bay to Queen Charlotte's Sound-Junction with the Adventure- Transactions during our Stay there --; CHAPTER VII. Run from New Zeeland to O-Taheitee --; CHAPTER VIII. Anchorage in O-Aitepeha Harbour, on the lesser Peninsula of O-Taheitee- Account of our Stay there- Removal to Matavaï Bay --; CHAPTER IX. Account of our Transactions at Matavaï Bay --; CHAPTER X. Account of our Transactions at the Society Islands --; A Voyage Round the World. BOOK II --; CHAPTER I. Run from the Society Isles to the Friendly Isles, with an Account of our Transactions there --; CHAPTER II. Course from the Friendly Isles to New Zeeland-Separation from the Adventure- Second Stay in Queen Charlotte's Sound --; CHAPTER III. The second Course towards the high Southern Latitudes; from New Zeeland to Easter Island --; CHAPTER IV. An Account of Easter Island, and our Stay there --; CHAPTER V. Run from Easter Island to the Marquesas- Stay in Madre-de-Dios Harbour, on Waitahoo- Course from thence through the Low Islands to Taheitee --; CHAPTER VI. An Account of our second Visit to the Island of O-Taheitee --; CHAPTER VII. The second Stay at the Society Islands --; CHAPTER VIII. Run from the Society to the Friendly Islands --; Notes to Volume I --; A Voyage Round the World. BOOK III --; CHAPTER I. An Account of our Stay at Mallicollo, and Discovery of the New Hebrides --; CHAPTER II. Account of our Stay at Tanna, and Departure from the New Hebrides --; CHAPTER III. Discovery of New Caledonia-Account of our Stay there-Range along the Coast to our Departure-Discovery of Norfolk Island- Return to New Zeeland --; CHAPTER IV. Third and last Stay at Queen Charlotte's Sound, in New Zeeland --; CHAPTER V. The Course from New Zeeland to Tierra del Fuego-Stay at Christmas Harbour --; CHAPTER VI. Stay at the New Year's Islands- Discovery of Lands to the Southward- Return to the Cape of Good Hope --; CHAPTER VII. Second Stay at the Cape of Good Hope- Run from thence to the Islands of St. Helena and Ascension --; CHAPTER VIII. Run from Ascension, past the Island of Fernando da Noronha, to the Açores- Stay at Fayal-Return to England --; APPENDIXES --; Notes to Volume II --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824861308; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824861308
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: George Forster; ed. by Nicholas Thomas, Oliver Berghof.

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.