{"product_id":"a-voyage-round-the-world-in-his-britannic-majesty-s-sloop-resolution-with-observations-made-during-a-voyage-round-the-world-on-physical-geography-natural-history-and-ethic-philosophy","title":"A Voyage round the World in His Britannic Majesty’s Sloop Resolution…[with] Observations made during a Voyage Round the World on Physical Geography, Natural History and Ethic Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohann George Adam Forster (1754-1794) and Johann Reinhold Forster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1777-1778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePrinted for B.White, J.Robson, P. Elmsly, and G.Robinson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eLondon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 volumes. A Voyage Round The World, In His Britannic Majesty s Sloop, Resolution: 2 volumes. xviii+602,+[1] pages with large folding map of the world ; [iv]+607 pages. Observations made during a Voyage Round the World iii+[9]-649+[1] pages with folding table of languages. Some copies of the Observations had the Pacific Islands map based on the Tahitian Tupaia's chart bound in; it has not been added to this copy. Royal quartos (11x8½\") bound in contemporary marbled calf, morocco labels to spines lettered and tooled in gilt. (Beaglehole, II, pp. clii-cliii; Beddie, 1247, 1261; Hill, 625, 628; Hocken, p. 16-18; Holmes, 23, 29; Kroepelien, 450, 456; O'Reilly-Reitman, 382, 395, etc; Rosove, 132.A1.d, 140.A1; Spence, 464, 467) First Editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohann Georg Adam Forster was an influential German polymath, naturalist, geographer, ethnologist, travel writer, and political revolutionary. He is widely recognized as one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature and a progressive thinker who advocated for universal human equality. After the withdrawal of Joseph Banks, Johann Reinhold Forster was invited by the British Admiralty to join James Cook's second expedition to the Pacific (1772–75). Georg Forster joined his father in the expedition and was appointed as a draughtsman to his father. Johann Forster's task was to work on a scientific report of the journey's discoveries that was to be published after their return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupervised by his father, Georg Forster first undertook studies of the zoology and botanics of the southern seas, mostly by drawing animals and plants. However, Georg also pursued his own interests, which led to completely independent explorations in comparative geography and ethnology.[38] He quickly learned the languages of the Polynesian islands. His reports on the people of Polynesia are well regarded today, as they describe the inhabitants of the southern islands with empathy, sympathy and largely without Western or Christian bias. Unlike Louis Antoine de Bougainville, whose reports from a journey to Tahiti a few years earlier had initiated uncritical noble savage romanticism, Forster developed a sophisticated picture of the societies of the South Pacific islands. He described various social structures and religions that he encountered on the Society Islands, Easter Island and in Tonga and New Zealand, and ascribed this diversity to the difference in living conditions of these people. At the same time, he also observed that the languages of these fairly widely scattered islands were similar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1777, his book A Voyage Round the World in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the Years, 1772, 3, 4, and 5 was published. This report was the first account of Cook's second voyage (it appeared six weeks before the official publication) and was intended for the general public. The English version and his own translation into German (published 1778–80) earned the young author real fame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eObservations Made During a Voyage Round the World on Physical Geography, Natural History, and Ethic Philosophy is a monumental scientific and anthropological book written by Johann Reinhold Forster and published in London in 1778. The book is the systematic, scientific culmination of Forster's appointment as the official naturalist aboard Captain James Cook's historic second Pacific voyage (1772–1775) on the HMS Resolution. Initially barred by the British Admiralty from publishing a standard, lucrative travel narrative of the voyage—which led to his son Georg Forster defiantly publishing his own account, A Voyage Round the World, in 1777—the elder Forster instead funneled his immense research into this \"philosophical\" and empirical analysis of the global environments and cultures they encountered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpine labels and ends lightly chipped, touches of scuffing at boards, corners abraded; bookplates present, minor toning throughout, some spotting and general wear else very good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Collector, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46102692200639,"sku":null,"price":11000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0530\/5614\/3551\/files\/forster.jpg?v=1787863951","url":"https:\/\/bookcollectorshop.com\/products\/a-voyage-round-the-world-in-his-britannic-majesty-s-sloop-resolution-with-observations-made-during-a-voyage-round-the-world-on-physical-geography-natural-history-and-ethic-philosophy","provider":"The Book Collector, Inc","version":"1.0","type":"link"}