Strangers in the South Seas : the idea of the Pacific in Western thought : an anthology

University of Hawai'i Press

2006?

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1. The island as Eldorado and the South Sea bubble. Introduction. Magellan's voyage (1525) / Antonio Pigafetta. Relation of a memorial present to His Majesty (1608) / Pedro Ferna∞ndez de Quiros. An essay on the South-Sea trade (1711) / Daniel Defoe. An epistle to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales presented by Mr Stanhope (1720) / William Bond. A poem occasion'd by the rise and fall of South-Sea stock (1720) / Anonymous. A new voyage round the world, by a course never sailed before (1724) / Daniel Defoe. Sources. Further reading
2. The noble savage. Journal of the HMS Endeavour (1769) / James Cook. A voyage round the world (1771) / Louis Antoine de Bougainville. Postscript : On the island of New Cythera or Tahiti (1769) / Philibert Commerson. Account of his second voyage round the world (1773) / James Cook. Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage (1772) / Denis Diderot. A journey round the world (1777) / George Forster. An account of the Pelew Islands (1788) / George Keate. The New Zealanders : A story of Austral Lands / Jules Sebastian Ce∞sar Dumont D'Urville. Sources. Further reading
3. Darks parts of the Earth : The voyage of the Duff, 1796-1798. Introduction. Memoir of the most eligible part to begin a mission (1795) / Thomas Haweis. A journal constituting of a few remarks of a voyage from Portsmouth to the Society Islands (1796) / William Puckey. Counsels and instructions (1796) / London Missionary Society, directors. Journal of a voyage to the South Seas (1796-1797) / The missionaries. Tahiti (1796-1799) / Rowland Hassall. Letter to the Missionary Society (1798) / John Harris. Letter to Joseph Banks (1798) / Thomas Haweis. Letter to Mary Cover (1799) / Matthew Wilks
4. The island as crucible : From the great chain of being to evolution. Introduction. The Endeavour journal (1770) / Joseph Banks. A specimen of the Botany of New Holland (1793) / James Edward Smith. Zoological philosophy (1809) / Jean Baptiste Lamarck. The Pelican Island (1828) / James Montgomery. Galapagos Archipelago (1839) ; Essay on species (1844) / Charles Darwin. The Encentadas, or Enchanted Isles (1854) / Herman Melville. Sources. Further reading
5. How many Adams must we admit? : The varieties of man. Introduction. Observations made during a voyage around the world (1778) / Johann Reinhold Forster. Researches into the physical history of man (1813) / James Cowles Prichard. Lectures on comparative anatomy, physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man (1817) / William Lawrence. The islands of the Pacific (1832) / Jules Sebastian Cesar Dumont D'Urville. On aboriginal savage races of man (1866) / Anonymous
6. The island as colony : From backwater to "ocean of the future". Introduction. The Canterbury Association : Farewell to the New Zealand emigrants : Illustrated London News (1860). Notes on the latent resources of Polynesia (1851) / Charles St. Julian. The island world of the Pacific (1851) / Henry T. Cheever. Inaugural address the Lyttleton Colonists' Society (1852) / John Robert Godley. A ramble through the New Zealand Court : Illustrated London News (1886). The Vagabond : Cannibals and convicts (1887) / Julian Thomas. My consulate in Samoa (1887) / William Churchward. A footnote to history (1892) / Robert Louis Stevenson. Problems of the Pacific (1912) / Frank Fox. Sources. Further reading
7. Anthropometry, ethnology, relativism : The island for anthropologists. Introduction. The observation of savage peoples (1799) / Joseph-Marie Degerando. Research instructions into the anatomical differences of the races of man (1799). Maria Island : Anthropological observations (1803) / François Peron. United States exploring expedition, 1838-1842, vol. 6. : Ethnology and philology (1846) / Horatio Hale. On the Tasmanians as representatives of Palµolithic Man (1893) / Edward B. Tylor. A plea for an expedition to Melanesia (1906) / A.C. Haddon. A diary in the strict sense of the term (1917-1918) / Bronislaw Malinowski. Sex and temperament in three primitive societies (1935) / Margaret Mead. Sources. Further reading
8. The colonial interregnum and the Second World War. Introduction. Some experiences of a New Guinea resident magistrate (1921) . C.A.W. Monckton. A pattern of islands (1952) / Arthur Grimble. The naked and the dead (1948) / Norman Mailer. Guadalcanal diary (1943) / Richard Tregaskis. War in the shadows (1986) / Peter Medcalf. With the old breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (1980) / E.B. Sledge. Letter from New Guinea (1943) / Vern Haugland. Pieces of Heaven (1996) / Nancy Phelan. Sources. Further reading
9. Disillusion : From Noa Noa to the H-bomb. Introduction. Noa Noa (1893) / Paul Gauguin. The red one (1918) / Jack London. Transit to Venus : Travels in the Pacific (1992) / Julian Evans. Paradise (2001) / Larry McMurtry. Changes in latitude : An uncommon anthropology (1989) / Joanna McIntyre Varawa. Sources. Further reading.

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