Exploration of the South Seas in the Eighteenth Century: Rediscovered Accounts, Volume I: Samuel Wallis's Voyage Round the World in the Dolphin 1766-1768

The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has contributed to the flourishing of enduring and prolific worldwide scholarship across numerous fields. These navigators and their texts were instrumental in spurring on further exploration, annexation and ultimately colonisation of the pacific territories in the space of only a few decades. This series will present new sources and primary texts in English, paving the way for postcolonial critical approaches in which the reporting, writing, rewr...