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Observations made during a voyage round the world / Johann Reinhold Forster ; edited by Nicholas Thomas, Harriet Guest, and Michael Dettelbach ; with a linguistics appendix by Karl H. Rensch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: lxxviii, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0824817257
  • 9780824817251
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910.92 22
LOC classification:
  • G420.C65 F67 1996
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Johann Reinhold Forster and His Observations -- "On the Varieties of the Human Species": Forster's Comparative Ethnology -- Looking at Women: Forster's Observations in the South Pacific -- "A Kind of Linnaean Being": Forster and Eighteenth-Century Natural History -- Textual Note -- Advertisement for the Observations -- Preface -- A Journal of the Voyage round the World in the Resolution -- I. Remarks on the Earth and Lands, their Inequalities, Strata, and Constituent Parts -- II. Remarks on Water and the Ocean -- III. Remarks on the Atmosphere and its Changes, Meteors and Phoenomena -- IV. Remarks on the Changes of our Globe -- V. Remarks on the Organic Bodies -- VI. Remarks on the Human Species in the South-Sea Isles -- List of Subscribers -- Appendix I: Forster's Pacific Placenames -- Appendix II: Forster's Polynesian Linguistics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Map of countries off the South Pacific Ocean on endpapers.

Originally published: London : Printed for G. Robinson, 1778.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-442) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Johann Reinhold Forster and His Observations -- "On the Varieties of the Human Species": Forster's Comparative Ethnology -- Looking at Women: Forster's Observations in the South Pacific -- "A Kind of Linnaean Being": Forster and Eighteenth-Century Natural History -- Textual Note -- Advertisement for the Observations -- Preface -- A Journal of the Voyage round the World in the Resolution -- I. Remarks on the Earth and Lands, their Inequalities, Strata, and Constituent Parts -- II. Remarks on Water and the Ocean -- III. Remarks on the Atmosphere and its Changes, Meteors and Phoenomena -- IV. Remarks on the Changes of our Globe -- V. Remarks on the Organic Bodies -- VI. Remarks on the Human Species in the South-Sea Isles -- List of Subscribers -- Appendix I: Forster's Pacific Placenames -- Appendix II: Forster's Polynesian Linguistics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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