- Bib ID:
- 1390068
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798
- Description:
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- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c1996
- lxxviii, 446 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0824817257 (alkaline paper)
- Full contents:
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- Johann Reinhold Forster and His Observations / Nicholas Thomas
- "On the Varieties of the Human Species": Forster's Comparative Ethnology / Nicholas Thomas
- Looking at Women: Forster's Observations in the South Pacific / Harriet Guest
- "A Kind of Linnaean Being": Forster and Eighteenth-Century Natural History / Michael Dettelbach
- Advertisement for the Observations
- 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
- Appendix I: Forster's Pacific Placenames
- Appendix II: Forster's Polynesian Linguistics / Karl H. Rensch.
- Notes:
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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 (p. 433-442) and index.
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- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
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- Publication date:
- 1996
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