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A voyage round the world : in two volumes /
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 vo...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2000]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction ; George Forster's life and work
- Cook's second voyage and George Forster's voyage
- The anthropology of the voyage : George Forster's responses to Oceania
- The reception and influence of the voyage
- 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
- 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
- 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 ; Appendix A. The "Introduction" to George Forster's "Reise um die Welt" / translated by Oliver Berghof
- Appendix B. "Remarks on Mr. Forster's Account of Captain Cook's last Voyage Round the World, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775" / William Wales
- Appendix C. "A Reply to Mr. Wales's Remarks" / George Forster (1778)
- Appendix D. A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sandwich / George Forster
- Appendix E. Forster's Pacific Island names.