Captain Cook: Voyager Between Two Worlds
Autor John Gascoigneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 apr 2008
Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. Born in North Yorkshire in 1728, when Cook entered the world of the peoples of the South Pacific, the gulf between the two cultures was not nearly as vast as it was a century later, when ships made of metal and powered by steam were able to expand and enforce European Empires.
In their different ways both the English and the peoples of the Pacific had to battle the seas and its moods with timber vessels powered by sail and human muscle. Captain James Cook represented - in those places to which he voyaged - English attitudes in the eighteenth century. In his voyages he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought and cultures. John Gascoigne explores what happened when the two systems met, and how each side interpreted the other in terms of their own beliefs and experiences.| Toate formatele și edițiile | Preț | Express |
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781847252098
ISBN-10: 1847252095
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 49
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hambledon Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1847252095
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 49
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hambledon Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Caracteristici
Facinating exploration of both sides of the first meeting of Pacific cultures.
Cuprins
Illustrations
Maps
Abbreviations
Preface
1. Worlds
2. The Sea
3. Trade
4. War
5. Politics
6. Religion
7. Sex
8. Death
Maps
Abbreviations
Preface
1. Worlds
2. The Sea
3. Trade
4. War
5. Politics
6. Religion
7. Sex
8. Death
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
Many biographies have been written about Capt. James Cook ... but Gascoigne takes a different approach in his insightful telling of Cook's story ... His perceptive analysis gives a new depth of understanding about the actual interactions between these cultures. With an extensive bibliography and endnotes; highly recommended for history and anthropological collections in academic and large public libraries.
Gascoigne provides vivid examples of how the process of cultural conflict and accommodation worked in the Pacific in the mid-to late eighteenth century.
A wide-ranging account of the 18th-century navigator who mapped the St. Lawrence and, to a great extent, opened the South Pacific, and of the people he 'discovered' there.
John Gascoigne ... paints a detailed and clear picture of that place and time, and, by extension, provides a keyhole onto Cook ... Academic yes, but highly readable.
One of the great pleasures of this book is that it is elegantly written and in a style which should satisfy the general reader with an interest in the Pacific as well as Cook scholars. He confidently masters the broad literature of the voyages, the 18th-century British background and the available literature on the Pacific, showing definitively that there is still more to be said about the great 18th-century voyager and his impact.
Offers an extensive reading of the voyages, drawing widely from a mixture of sources.
...a valiant and interesting attempt to match the conflicting viewpoints of those about to be colonized and of those about to take over...an easy-to-read book that stimulates readers to consider matters they had previously taken for granted and to go away and look for their own answers.
An engaging and impressive volume ... well supported by about 45 illustrations and seven maps ... supplemented with full endnotes, an extensive bibliography and index. It is a valuable addition to the literature of social and natural sciences, exploration and naval history.
Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds makes a unique contribution in the sustained focus it gives to Cook's British social and cultural context as a way of understanding his encounters with new worlds. It is a truly evenhanded ethnohistory.
Captain James Cook RN continues to fascinate. There must be hundreds of books that have been published about him. This is one of the better ones... An interesting and valuable new approach to an endlessly fascinating topic.
Gascoigne provides vivid examples of how the process of cultural conflict and accommodation worked in the Pacific in the mid-to late eighteenth century.
A wide-ranging account of the 18th-century navigator who mapped the St. Lawrence and, to a great extent, opened the South Pacific, and of the people he 'discovered' there.
John Gascoigne ... paints a detailed and clear picture of that place and time, and, by extension, provides a keyhole onto Cook ... Academic yes, but highly readable.
One of the great pleasures of this book is that it is elegantly written and in a style which should satisfy the general reader with an interest in the Pacific as well as Cook scholars. He confidently masters the broad literature of the voyages, the 18th-century British background and the available literature on the Pacific, showing definitively that there is still more to be said about the great 18th-century voyager and his impact.
Offers an extensive reading of the voyages, drawing widely from a mixture of sources.
...a valiant and interesting attempt to match the conflicting viewpoints of those about to be colonized and of those about to take over...an easy-to-read book that stimulates readers to consider matters they had previously taken for granted and to go away and look for their own answers.
An engaging and impressive volume ... well supported by about 45 illustrations and seven maps ... supplemented with full endnotes, an extensive bibliography and index. It is a valuable addition to the literature of social and natural sciences, exploration and naval history.
Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds makes a unique contribution in the sustained focus it gives to Cook's British social and cultural context as a way of understanding his encounters with new worlds. It is a truly evenhanded ethnohistory.
Captain James Cook RN continues to fascinate. There must be hundreds of books that have been published about him. This is one of the better ones... An interesting and valuable new approach to an endlessly fascinating topic.