The death of Captain Cook and other writings / by David Samwell ; edited by Martin Fitzpatrick, Nicholas Thomas and Jennifer Newell
- Bib ID:
- 4388809
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- Author:
- Samwell, David, 1751-1798
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- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2007
- 170 p. : ill., facsims. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780708319680
- 0708320732
- 9780708320730
- 0708319688
- Summary:
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"This book not only makes Samwell's The Death of Captain James Cook readily available for the first time, but presents it with previously unpublished lively letters relating to Cook's last voyage, and examples of the surgeon's own poetry giving us fresh insight into Samwell's character and into the various worlds he inhabited."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Machine derived contents note: 1. David Samwell: an eventful career / Martin Fitzpatrick
- 2. David Samwell on his hobby horse / Martin Fitzpatrick
- 3. David Samwell Pacific ethnographer and historian / Nicholas Thomas
- Note on the texts 58
- A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook 63
- The correspondence of David Samwell 89
- The poetry of David Samwell 129.
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Includes some Welsh poetry.
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