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Michelle Hetherington,National Library of Australia,Australian National University. Humanities Research Centre
Author : Michelle Hetherington,National Library of Australia,Australian National University. Humanities Research Centre Publisher : National Library Australia Page : 74 pages File Size : 48,7 Mb Release : 2001 Category : Art ISBN : 9780642107312
Cook & Omai by Michelle Hetherington,National Library of Australia,Australian National University. Humanities Research Centre Pdf
Cook & Omai: The Cult of the South Seas draws on the Library's collections and the documentary record to explore a fascinating chapter in the history of the Pacific, and European concerns about the nature of humankind and the world as they saw it. The catalogue and exhibition provide insight into the legacy of Omai, caught, as he was, between two worlds.
Omai was the first Polynesian to visit Britain. Picked up by one of Cook's captains, he was carried to England where he became a human curiosity and the lion of fashionable London. He was presented at Court, examined by scientists and painted by a series of artists. He learned to skate and play chess, and developed a liking for the theatre. At the end of two years he was taken back to the Pacific by Cook who left him at the island of Huahine. In this landmark book, McCormick creates a portrait of Omai and a picture of his two worlds, the Polynesian and the European.
Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage by John, Rickman Pdf
First published in 1967. This journal is a copy of the narrated manuscript of Captain Cook’s last voyage of discovery into the Pacific Ocean. It spans from 1776 to 1779 and includes illustrations and maps.
Captain Cook His Life, Voyages ,and Discoveries by W.H.G. Kingston Pdf
Captain Cook with help from W.H.G. Kingston, "Captain Cook" is a biography that tells the tale of the existence and travels of Captain James Cook, a well-known British navigator and traveler. This book, which came out in the 1800s, offers readers a vivid photograph of Cook's exceptional journeys and contributions to maritime journey in the course of the Age of Discovery. W.H.G. Kingston offers a totally specific account of Captain Cook childhood, his time in the military, and the three maximum vital journeys he took inside the Pacific that cemented his place in records. There are vivid descriptions of Cook's expeditions, which includes his observe of Australia and the Pacific Islands. These descriptions give readers can inspect the difficult conditions and exciting discoveries of overdue-18th-century maritime exploration. Kingston says that Cook turned into a fantastic navigator, a careful mapmaker, and a leader who won the respect of his crew and the scientific network. The story indicates the thrills and dangers of exploring waters that have not been explored before. It captures the era's spirit of adventure. "Captain Cook" is each a biography and an antique file. It sheds mild at the spirit of journey and discovery throughout a completely crucial time in maritime history.
This narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century shipping out of Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of counter-exploring, that echoed the ancient voyages of settlement of their island ancestors.
Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the extravagant and violent abuse of power. But William Bligh was one of the least violent disciplinarians in the British navy. It is this paradox which inspired Greg Dening to ask why the mutiny took place. His book explores the theatrical nature of what was enacted in the power-play on deck, on the beaches at Tahiti and in the murderous settlement at Pitcairn, on the altar stones and temples of sacrifice, and on the catheads from which men were hanged. Part of the key lies in the curious puzzle of Mr Bligh's bad language.
Hawaiian Music in Motion explores the performance, reception, transmission, and adaptation of Hawaiian music on board ships and in the islands, revealing the ways both maritime commerce and imperial confrontation facilitated the circulation of popular music in the nineteenth century. James Revell Carr draws on journals and ships' logs to trace the circulation of Hawaiian song and dance worldwide as Hawaiians served aboard American and European ships. He also examines important issues like American minstrelsy in Hawaii and the ways Hawaiians achieved their own ends by capitalizing on Americans' conflicting expectations and fraught discourse around hula and other musical practices.
The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery by J.C. Beaglehole Pdf
Captain James Cook’s first two voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the modern map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door on the discovery of Antarctica. These expeditions were the subject of Volumes I and II of Dr J.C. Beaglehole’s edition of Cook’s Journals. The third voyage, on which Cook sailed in 1776, was directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Its objective was the discovery of ’a Northern Passage by sea from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean’ - the North-west Passage, sought since the 16th century, which would have transformed the pattern of world trade. The search was to take Cook into high latitudes where, as in the Antarctic, his skill in ice navigation was tested. Sailing north from Tahiti in 1778, Cook made the first recorded discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. On March 7 he sighted the Oregon coast in 44° N. The remarkable voyage which he made northward along the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and through Bering Strait to his farthest north in 70° nearly disproved the existence of a navigable passage towards the Atlantic and produced charts of impressive accuracy. Returning to Hawaii to refit, Cook met his death in a clash with the natives as tragic as it seems unnecessary. Dr Beaglehole discusses, with sympathy and insight, the tensions which led Cook, by then a tired man, into miscalculations alien to his own nature and habits. The volume and vitality of the records, both textual and graphic, for this voyage surpass those even for Cook’s second voyage. The surgeons William Anderson and David Samwell, both admirable observers, left journals which are also here printed in full for the first time. The documentation is completed, as in the previous volumes, by appendixes of documents and correspondence and by reproductions of original drawings and paintings mainly by John Webber, the artist of the expedition. In Dr Beaglehole’s words, ’no one can study attentively the records of Cook’s third, and last, v