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Edited Book

Authors
Thomas, Nicholas and Berghof, Oliver, assisted by Newell, Jennifer.
Title
A Voyage Round the World, by George Forster
Imprint
University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2000
ISBN/ISSN
9780824820916
Subject
History of Australian Science - General
Description

'George Forster's Voyage Round the World, first published in 1777, is a remarkably vivid account of Captain James Cook's second voyage [in the Resolution], which ranged over the Pacific and Antarctic waters in search of a southern land. Needless to say, no continent was found, but the voyage yielded a wealth of knowledge - presented in an animated way in this volume - which is distinguished by the range and depth of its anthropological reflection. Forster's book is considerably longer than Cook's own account and a great deal richer in its descriptions of the peoples of Oceania than any other narrative from the voyage; the book is arguably the richest of any eighteenth-century account of Pacific peoples. Its detail and acuity are all the more important because participants in Cook's second voyage encountered a singularly wide range of Pacific peoples; some, such as the New Caledonians and the Tannese, were met for the first time.' [From the Preface].

Source
Carlson 2001

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260