Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies

Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s

Deirdre Coleman (Herausgeber)

Anna Maria Falconbridge, Mary Ann Parker (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

1998 | Annotated edition
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-7185-0149-5 (ISBN)

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This fully-annotated edition of Anna Maria Falconbridge's "Two Voyages to Sierra Leone" (1794) and Mary Ann Parker's "A Voyage Round the World" (1795) brings together the first published accounts by women of these new sites of British colonization. Laying the texts alongside one another brings into conjunction Britain's concurrent, late-18th-century systems of transportation and resettlement, convictism and slavery. Written as a series of letters to a close female friend, "Two Voyages to Sierra Leone" is primarily concerned to expose the bungling, hypocrisy and greed of an African imperial venture run by some of Britain's leading abolitionists. "A Voyage Round the World" covers social visiting and picnicking, the flora and fauna and observations on many of the colony of Botany Bay's leading players. There are forthright comments on the horrors of transportation and a "manners and customs" portrait of local aborigines.

Reihe/Serie	Literature of Travel, Exploration & Empire S.
Zusatzinfo	illustrations, bibli
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7185-0149-7 / 0718501497
ISBN-13	978-0-7185-0149-5 / 9780718501495
Zustand	Neuware