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Exploration & exchange : a South Seas anthology, 1680-1900
- Title
- Exploration & exchange : a South Seas anthology, 1680-1900 / edited by Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith, and Nicholas Thomas.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxv, 359 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Exploration and exchange
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-346) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-4459
- ISBN
- 0226468453 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226468461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00029930
- OCLC
- 43728982
- Title
- Exploration & exchange : a South Seas anthology, 1680-1900 / edited by Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith, and Nicholas Thomas.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-346) and index.
- Added Author
- Lamb, Jonathan, 1945-Smith, Vanessa (Vanessa Jane)Thomas, Nicholas.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-4459