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Edited by Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith, and Nicholas Thomas

Exploration and Exchange

A South Seas Anthology, 1680-1900

359 pages, 13 halftones, 2 maps  6 x 9  © 2001

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226468457   Published February 2001

Paper $20.00

ISBN: 9780226468464   Published February 2001

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Adventures and Explorers
Introduction
1. The Discover of New Holland - William Dampier
2. Lionel Wafer Crosses Darien - Lionel Wafer
3. Richard Simson at Juan Fernandez - Richard Simson
4. Commodore Anson Lands at Juan Fernandez - George Anson
5. Byron and the Patagonian Giants - John Byron
6. The Discovery of Tahiti - Samuel Wallis
7. The Unfortunate Compiler - James Cook, Joseph Banks, and John Hawkesworth
8. Providential Cannibalism - Johann Reinbold Forster
9. William Wales Makes Observations - William Wales
10. Benevolence on the Beach - George Keate
Part II: Beachcombers and Missionaries
Introduction
11. Resident Observer - James Morrison
12. The Brethren and the "Tayos" - William Wilson
13. Falling from Grace - George Vason
14. A Stranger in a Strange Country - Edward Robarts
15. The Violence of the Beach - Samuel Patterson and Richard Siddons
16. Missiles and Missives - William Mariner
17. Unutterable Practices - William Ellis
18. Property and Providence - John Williams
19. Tapu and Conceit in the Marquesas - David Darling
20. Philanthropic Sympathy and the Interests of Commerce - Abby Jane Morrell
21. Among the Cannibals - Mary Wallis
22. Tapa and Muru in New Zealand - Frederick Maning
Part III: Literary Travelers
Introduction
23. A Yankee at the Court of Captain Cook - Mark Twain
24. Quite Alone in a Mountain Village - Constance F. Gordon-Cumming
25. Belated First Contact - Robert Louis Stevenson
26. Cannibal Fashions - Fanny van der Grift Stevenson
27. "That Link of History" - Henry Adams/Ari'i Taimai
28. The Ebbing of the Tide - Louis Becke
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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