Book ID: CBB001450368

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

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Williams, Glyndwr (Author)


Yale University Press


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

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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Authors & Contributors
Laura Walker
William Frame
Studholme, Joseph
Gooding, Mel
Hartendorf-Wallach, Bregtje
Williams, Glyndwr
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Sea travel
Scientific expeditions
Science and culture
Science and literature
Navigation
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
16th century
Early modern
Modern
Renaissance
Places
Pacific Ocean
England
France
Spain
Great Britain
Atlantic world
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
Royal Society of London
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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