Buccaneers, Explorers and Settlers

Contents: Introduction; 'The inexhaustible fountain of gold': English projects and ventures in the South Seas, 1670-1750; Buccaneers, castaways, and satirists: the South Seas in the English consciousness before 1750; Anson at Canton, 1743: 'a little secret history'; George Anson's Voyage Round the World: the making of a best-seller; The beginnings of Britain's exploration of the Pacific Ocean in the 18th-century (with Alan Frost); 'To make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown': the Admiralty and Pacific exploration in the 18th century; The Endeavour voyage: a coincidence of motives; Tupaia: Polynesian warrior, navigator, high priest - and artist; 'Far more happier than we Europeans': reactions to the Australian Aborigines on Cook's voyage; The English and Aborigines: first contacts; The First Fleet and after: expectation and reality; Seamen and philosophers in the South Seas in the age of Captain Cook; Explorers and geographers: an uneasy alliance in the 18th-century exploration of the Pacific; An 18th-century Spanish investigation into the apocryphal voyage of Admiral Fonte; Myth and reality: James Cook and the theoretical geography of Northwest America; Myth and reality: the theoretical geography of Northwest America from Cook to Vancouver; 'The common center of we discoverers': Sir Joseph Banks, exploration and empire in the late 18th century; Index.