Endeavouring Banks - Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 : Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771

Language: English

Published by Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Mai 2016, 2016

1907372903 / 9781907372902

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Neuware - When English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728-1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, theEndeavourvoyage of 1768-1771, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators. Along with specimens and artefacts, contemporary portraits of key personalities aboard the ship, scale models and plans ofEndeavouritself, scientific instruments taken on the voyage, commemorative medals and sketches, the objects (over 140) featured in this new book tell the story of theEndeavourvoyage and its impact ahead of the 250th anniversary in 2018 of the launch of this seminal mission. Items separated in some cases for more than two centuries are brought together to reveal their fascinating history not only during but since that mission. Original voyage specimens will feature together with illustrations and descriptions of them, showing a rich diversity of newly discovered species and how Banks organized this material, planning but ultimately failing to publish it. Drawings of people and places visited during the mission are reproduced. And by comparing these voyage originals with the often stylized engravings later produced in London for the official account, this book investigates how knowledge gained on the mission was gathered, later revised and then printed in Europe. The book focuses on the contribution of Banks's often neglected artists - Sydney Parkinson, Herman Diedrich Spöring, Alexander Buchan as well as the priest Tupaia, who joinedEndeavourin the Society Islands - none of whom survived the mission. These men illustrated island scenes of bays, dwellings, canoes as well as the dress, faces, possessions and ceremonies of Pacific peoples. Of particular interest, and only recently recognised as by him, are the original artworks of Tupaia, who produced as part of this mission the first charts and illustrations on paper by any Polynesian. The survivingEndeavourvoyage illustrations and maps were the most important body of images produced since Europeans entered this region, matching the truly historic value of the plant specimens and artefacts seen alongside them in this handsome book.

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Title
Endeavouring Banks - Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 : Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771
Author
Neil Chambers
Publisher
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd Mai 2016
Publication year
2016
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Buch
Language
English
ISBN 10
1907372903
ISBN 13
9781907372902
Item weight
1,685 grams
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287x245x30 mm

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