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
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