Forster, Johann Reinhold,  1729-1798, <br/><br/>
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. 
 - lxxviii, 446 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Map of countries off the South Pacific Ocean on endpapers.  Originally published: London : Printed for G. Robinson, 1778. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-442) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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 --  Remarks on the Earth and Lands, their Inequalities, Strata, and Constituent Parts --  Remarks on Water and the Ocean --  Remarks on the Atmosphere and its Changes, Meteors and Phoenomena --  Remarks on the Changes of our Globe --  Remarks on the Organic Bodies --  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.  I.  II.  III.  IV.  V.  VI. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0824817257 9780824817251 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95000582 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Cook, James, 1728-1779 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Voyages around the world--Early works to 1800
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Oceania--Discovery and exploration
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>G420.C65  / F67 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>910.92