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Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin (2013)

Williams, Glyndwr (Author)

Yale University Press

ISBN: 9780300180732

Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xv + 309 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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Sea travel Naturalists Travel; exploration 18th century England Pacific Ocean Darwin, Charles Robert Cook, James Dampier, William Banks, Joseph

On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century", naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world. This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and misadventures, discoveries and dangers of this devoted and sometimes eccentric band of explorer-scholars. Their individual experiences are uniquely their own, but together their stories offer a new perspective on the extraordinary era of Pacific exploration and the achievements of an audacious generation of naturalists. Historian Glyn Williams illuminates the naturalist's lot aboard ship, where danger alternated with boredom and quarrels with the ship's commander were the norm.

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Review MacGregor, Arthur (2014) Review of "Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin". Journal of the History of Collections (pp. 120-122). unapi

Review Gascoigne, John (2014) Review of "Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 629-630). unapi

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