Observations made during a voyage round the world / Johann Reinhold Forster ; edited by Nicholas Tho...
Observations made during a voyage round the world / Johann Reinhold Forster ; edited by Nicholas Tho...
Observations made during a voyage round the world / Johann Reinhold Forster ; edited by Nicholas Thomas, Harriet Guest, and Michael Dettelbach ; with a linguistics appendix by Karl H. Rensch.
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Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c1996.
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Q910.92/5
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English
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Physical content
lxxviii, 446 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Johann Reinhold Forster and His Observations / Nicholas Thomas -- "On the Varieties of the Human Species": Forster's Comparative Ethnology / Nicholas Thomas -- Looking at Women: Forster's Observations in the South Pacific / Harriet Guest -- "A Kind of Linnaean Being": Forster and Eighteenth-Century...
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Publisher
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c1996.
Place of Publication
Hawaii
Date Published
c1996.
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Observations made during a voyage round the world / Johann Reinhold Forster ; edited by Nicholas Thomas, Harriet Guest, and Michael Dettelbach ; with a linguistics appendix by Karl H. Rensch.
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General note
Map of countries off the South Pacific Ocean on endpapers.
Originally published: London : Printed for G. Robinson, 1778.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-442) and index.
Mitchell Library copy: Jacket filed.
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c1996.
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Q910.92/5
Record Identifier
74VMeQE80lvA
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ISBN
0824817257 (alk. paper)
9780824817251 (alk. paper)
DDC
910.92
MMS ID
991003124899702626
