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The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775 - Volume IV (Paperback)
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The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775 - Volume IV (Paperback)
Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Series
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This presents the previously unpublished journal of the principal
naturalist on Cook's second voyage. The main pagination of this
volume and the three previous volumes in the set (Second series
152-154) is continuous. Overshadowed for nearly two hundred years
in European scholarship by the achievements and reputation of his
eldest son George Forster, J. R. Forster - principal naturalist on
James Cook's second voyage - was nevertheless recognised by many
contemporaries as one of the 'universal geniuses' of the late 18th
century. His journal of the voyage offers many new insights,
expressed at times in quite unrestrained language, into the
day-to-day relationships, life and thinking and theory-testing on
the second, and the most scientific and the most epic of Cook's
voyages. However, the circumstances of Forster's career and
personality were such that his work was dogged by debilitating
disputes and vendettas. Consequently, important works such as this
journal, which would have established him as the leading
comparative anthropologist, linguist, geographer and zoologist of
the Pacific, have thus far remained obscure and seldom-used
manuscripts. Anthropologists, ethnolinguists, geographers,
botanists, zoologists and medical and literary historians will find
here much new observation and theory; for the two Forsters
fashioned forces to influence Alexander von Humboldt and foretell
Charles Darwin. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of
the volume first published in 1981.
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