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The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster 1772-1775 (set)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

1982
Hakluyt Society (Verlag)
978-0-904180-10-7 (ISBN)

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This presents the previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on Cook's second voyage. The main pagination of this volume and the three other volumes in the set (Second series 152, 154-155) is continuous. Overshadowed for nearly two hundred years in European scholarship by the achievements and reputation of his eldest son George Forster, J. R. Forster - principal naturalist on James Cook’s second voyage - was nevertheless recognised by many contemporaries as one of the ’universal geniuses’ of the late 18th century. His journal of the voyage offers many new insights, expressed at times in quite unrestrained language, into the day-to-day relationships, life and thinking and theory-testing on the second, and the most scientific and the most epic of Cook’s voyages. However, the circumstances of Forster’s career and personality were such that his work was dogged by debilitating disputes and vendettas. Consequently, important works such as this journal, which would have established him as the leading comparative anthropologist, linguist, geographer and zoologist of the Pacific, have thus far remained obscure and seldom-used manuscripts. Anthropologists, ethnolinguists, geographers, botanists, zoologists and medical and literary historians will find here much new observation and theory; for the two Forsters fashioned forces to influence Alexander von Humboldt and foretell Charles Darwin. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1981.

Michael E. Hoare

Contents: Introduction: The pre-voyage Forster (1729-1772): 'A Dantzick German Gent': parson, scientist, traveller, 1729-1766; 'A natural-born scientist', 1767-1772; The voyage; Textual introduction: the Journal and associated manuscripts; The science and its records; A journal of the voyage round the world in the Resolution: Journal of all the incidents previous to my appointment...; The Journal: 13 July 1772-23 November 1772; 23 November 1772-17 September 1773; 17 September 1773-13 July 1774; 13 July 1774-30 July 1775; Appendix I: George Forster's plant drawings from Cook's second voyage in...the British Museum (Natural History); Appendix II: Nota relativement aux Curiosites Artificielles, qu'on a rapportees de la Mer du Sud; Select bibliographical references; Indexes.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.1982
Reihe/Serie	Hakluyt Society Second Series
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
ISBN-10	0-904180-10-7 / 0904180107
ISBN-13	978-0-904180-10-7 / 9780904180107
Zustand	Neuware