Description
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
Table of Contents
Part II Volume 6: The South Seas and Australia John Williams, A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; with Remarks on the Natural History of the Islands, Origin, Languages, Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants (1838); Robert FitzRoy, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing the Examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe (1839); John Lort Stokes, Discoveries in Australia; With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers explored and surveyed during the Voyage of H.M.S Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea (1846); Charles Sturt, Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed under the Authority of Her Majesties Government during the Years 1844, 5, and 6: Together with a Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847 (1849); Mary Wallis, Life in Feejee, or, Five Years among the Cannibals, by a Lady (1851); John MacGillivray, Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Owen Stanley, R.N., FRS &c. during the Years 1846-1850 (1852); John Elphinstone Erskine, Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific, including the Feejees and others inhabited by the Polynesian Negro Races, in Her Majesty's Ship Havannah (1853); Thomas Williams, Fiji and the Fijians: The Islands and their Inhabitants (1858); Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming, A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-War (1882); Julian Thomas [pseudonym of Stanley James], Cannibals and Convicts: Notes on Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific (1886); Charles Morris Woodford, A Naturalist Among the Head-Hunters (1890); William Wyatt Gill, From Darkness to Light in Polynesia, with Illustrative Clan Songs (1894); A. C. Haddon, Head-Hunters: Black, White and Brown (1901)
