9780824817251 - Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World von Forster, Johann Reinhold; Guest, Harriet (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good-. Squarish royal octavo in edgeworn dust jacket, frontispiece portrait, lxx, 447 pp., b/w illustrations, Forster's Pacific Placenames, Forter's Polynesian Linguisitics, notes, bibliography, index, textual notes, advertisement for the Observations, map endpapers Edited by Nicholas Thomas, Harriet Guest, and Michael Dettelbach, witha linguistics appendix by Karl H. Rensch. Includes the articles "Johann Reinhold Forster and His 'Observaon,'" Nicholas Thomas, "'On the Varieties of the Human Species'" Forster's Comparative Ethnology," Nicholas Thomas, "Looking at Women: Forster's Observatons in the South Pacific," Harriet Guest, "'A Kind of Linnean Being': Forster and Eighteenth-Century Natural History," Michael Dettelbach.