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Title: |
The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman |
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| By (author): |
Anonymous Edited by: Lance Bertelsen |
| ISBN10-13: |
1554812747 : 9781554812745 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Weight: |
.295 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - November 2016 |
| List Price: |
26.75 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778) tells the story of a fictional midshipman abandoned in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, after a battle with Maori that claims the lives of ten of his shipmates. Inspired by an actual event on Captain Cookâ s second voyage, Bowmanâ s adventures take him to increasingly sophisticated culturesâ hunter/ gatherer, pastoral/nomadic, agricultural, and commercialâ that dramatize stadial history in a Pacific setting. The work provocatively weaves together popular fascination with Cookâ s voyages, sensational conceptions of the newly charted Pacific, contemporary ideas on human development and culture, topical satire on London life, and a fanciful castaway story. As an introduction to the cultural connections linking Pacific studies, the Scottish Enlightenment, and eighteenth-century English society and politics, The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman is unique in literary history and unsurpassed as a teaching text. Of equal importance, it marks the birth of a national literature. It is the first New Zealand novel. Historical appendices provide an exceptionally broad range of materials on the Grass Cove â massacre,â the eighteenth-century stadial theory of historical development, cannibalism, and contemporary depictions of the South Pacific and its indigenous peoples. |
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