Buch, Englisch, 976 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1814 g
Rediscovered Accounts
Buch, Englisch, 976 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1814 g
Reihe: Routledge Historical Resources
ISBN: 978-1-84893-070-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
The first volume makes available Samuel Wallis’ logs of the Dolphin’s voyage 1766-68 in their original form for the first time. Captain Samuel Wallis was the first Englishman to come across the Tuamotus and the Society Isles in the South Pacific, specifically Tahiti. His writings predate the available textual sources by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, the log of the Spanish voyages and James Cook — whose text Wallis’ prefigures. The three logs attest to the very first encounter between Europeans and Tahitians, but until now comparatively little research has been conducted on the more elaborate second volume and none on the first. The Polynesian archipelagos grew into objects of discourse over the years and Wallis' logs may very well be located at the heart of these evocative constructs.
The translated accounts of voyages undertaken by foreign vessels abounded in an era when they encouraged not only competitive geopolitical initiatives but also commercial enterprises throughout Europe, resulting in a voluminous textual corpus. However, French merchant-seaman Etienne Marchand’s journal of his voyage round the world in 1790-1792, encompassing an important visit to the Marquesas Archipelago during his first crossing of the Pacific, remained unpublished until 2005 and has only now been made available in English. The second volume of this series comprises an annotated translation in English of this document.
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REDISCOVERED ACCOUNTS, VOLUME I
SAMUEL WALLIS’S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN THE DOLPHIN 1766-1768
List of Illustrations and Annexes
Preface
Introduction
Samuel Wallis’s Voyage round the World in the Dolphin 1766-1768
REDISCOVERED ACCOUNTS, VOLUME II
VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD PERFORMED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CAPTAIN ETIENNE MARCHAND IN THE SOLIDE OF MARSEILLES 1790-1792
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Voyage Round the World Performed under the Direction of Captain Etienne Marchand in the Solide of Marseilles 1790-1792