...Anne M. Thell Published in collaboration with the Royal Society of London in 1697, William Dampier’s A New Voyage Round the World was the most popular and influential travel account of the first half of the eighteenth century. Yet despite the astonishing success of New Voyage within commercial...

...Margarette Lincoln Duke University Press 2007 Mutinous Behavior on Voyages to the South Seas and Its Impact on Eighteenth-Century Civil Society Margarette Lincoln National Maritime...

.... King, with strong familial and political ties to Edmund Burke, would become one of Cook’s most trusted aides, commander of HMS Discovery on the voyage home, and author of volume three of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784), the official history of the voyage, a publication that has put him...

...Kate Fullagar The belated European rediscovery of the Pacific helped to test, modify, extend, or otherwise realize the critical, collecting, and conjecturing ethos of the Enlightenment. Whether official philosophers or not, voyagers found in the “new” space of the Pacific more data about...

... in the third volume of the official history, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean . This skewed chronology has led to some disorientation among historians of surfing, while historians of Cook’s voyages, for the most part, have neglected the surfing episodes altogether. In this essay, I address the descriptions in four...

... impressing on non-sailors in his readership what is perhaps the central experience of sea travel in the sailing age: the dull passage of vast stretches of time against an unvaried backdrop of sea and sky. This essay considers how Falconer narrativizes the voyage in his poem and balances the competing demands...

...Peter M. Briggs Dunton's journalistic Athenian Mercury and his proto-novel A Voyage Round the World , both from 1691, imply through their strategies of presentation significantly different ideas of authorship. Experimenting with a participatory format that paired readers' questions on a variety...

...—of powerful city-states and empires. The poem's primary theme is the peril faced by sailors on trading voyages, on which they provide the labor, face the dangers, but earn few of the profits. By invoking the Greco-Roman past, however, Falconer also warns his readers of the human costs of commercial...

... Voyage (1789)—in contemporary review journals. It argues that these poets’ commitment to depicting the “enormous crimes” of British slavery in poetic form clashed with reviewers’ expectations of poetic diction, imagination, and representation, a conflict that arose from what I term “literary review...

... Volume 34, Number 3, Fall 2010  doi 10.1215/00982601-2010-017 Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 88     8 9 sure during the voyages to the Pacifc led by Captain Cook. As Guest shows...

...Jason H. Pearl Duke University Press 2007 Woodes Rogers and the Boundary of Travel Facts Jason H. Pearl Boston University In A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712...

... a tattooed native from the Spice Islands. He had seen it all and wrote it up in two acclaimed travel narratives: A New Voyage Round the World, pub- lished in 1697, and A Voyage to New Holland, which appeared in two parts, in 1703 and 1709.1...

... Linon-Chipon. Gallia Orientalis: Voyages aux Indes orientales, 1529 – 1722. Poétique et imaginaire d’un genre littéraire en formation (Paris: l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2003). Pp. 692. €40. ISBN 2-84050-26-5 Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. Voyage autour du monde, ed. Michel Bideaux...

... to Chessington—Susey to Howletts—Dick to Hindon—and Jemm to Otahieta.” —Charlotte Burney’s journal, August 1 On his “Voyages of hazard and Enterprise” with James Cook between and š , James Burney traveled as far north as Siberia and as far south as the Antarctic circle (Frances Burney, journal...

... 0-393-06050-0 Anne Salmond, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (London: Penguin. Allen Lane, 2003). Pp. 544. £8.99. ISBN 0-141-01-0037 Nicholas Thomas. Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook (London: Penguin. Allen Lane, 2004). Pp. 512. £10.99 paper. ISBN 0...

... for dispersing scientific ideas through texts; the popularity of epis- tolary texts in the literature of ballooning shows that what is also being dis- persed is a medium of imagination. Letters by aeronauts and by spectators of balloon voyages made readers think of flight literally, and about flight...

... David Paxman Brigham Young University Eighteenth-century voyagers showed such keen interest in Pacific islands and islanders that today’s historians have remarked upon the “minute partic- ulars” of their accounts.1 The Pacific setting...

... of the ECL26313-Ridley.q4.jw.SH 3/25/03 3:37 PM Page 204 204 Eighteenth-Century Life Figure 1. “Kangaroo,” engraved from Stubbs’s painting, in John Hawkesworth’s An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty, for Making Discoveries...

... of a larger conflict over the role of exchange value in the social relationships across different cultures. This paper explores the role material objects played in two French narratives of encounters with Pacific Islanders: Bougainville’s Voyage autour...

... joined the crew of a slave ship for what would be his first and last voyage in that trade. As was often the case, due to the deplorable conditions on board, many slaves fell ill. In caring for them, Rushton contracted trachoma, a highly contagious bacterial infection that took his sight. Returning...