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Australian Maritime Series: Previous Editions Now out of Print | ||
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H.A. Willis: The West Australian: Big Weekend 20 February 1999 | |
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With only five Australian libraries holding copies of the 1793 original, this extremely rare book has been unavailable to the public. A 1990 limited edition went some way towards supplying scholars, but it only now, with the release of this superb facsimile (the first), that Hamilton’s work is more widely available. | ||
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Mark Staniforth, Flinders University: Nautical Research Journal Volume 45, Issue 3, September 2000 | |
| Hamilton's original publication was relatively short, containing only five chapters and a total of 165 pages. His account opens by suggesting that the British government's principal purpose for the voyage was "to bring punishment to the mutineers of His Majesty's late ship Bounty". | ||
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Christon I. Archer, University of Calgary: International Journal of Maritime History Volume XIII, (June 2001) | |
| George Hamilton, surgeon aboard Pandora, published his account of the voyage in 1793 during a time when there was considerable interest in the trials of the Bounty mutineers. A perceptive observer influenced by contemporary thinking about shipboard health, Hamilton made certain on the outward voyage around Cape Horn that Pandora took on fresh water at Tenerife and Rio de Janeiro and stocked lemons, oranges, pomegranates, bananas, and other fruit. He opposed salt meat, promoted the consumption of balanced diets, and he praised a new experimental ventilation system designed to force fresh air into the lower decks. Hamilton kept a barrel of sauerkraut – described as ‘this grand antiscorbutic’ – open for the crew, who consumed it as a salad with vinegar. | ||
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| Barry Gough: The American Neptune Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario | ||
| Sailor, cartographer, visionary, and imperial "fixer," the amazing Scot, Alexander Dalrymple, bestrode the geographical world of the late eighteenth century like a colossus. His impact on the European world of scientific inquiry was extensive, and his enthusiasm for British discoveries in the South Pacific was equally remarkable, for it was he who would have hoped to command the barque Endeavour on that famous first voyage of James Cook to the Society Islands with the purpose of observing the Transit of Venus. | ||
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Dr. Robert J. Chandler: Book Club of California Quarterly News-Letter Vol. LXII Number 2, Spring 1997 | |
| How did it come to be? At age fifteen, Dalrymple (1737-1808) joined the East India Company, where he embarked on his life’s quest - not the company’s ordinary paperwork, but something more grand. "General geography and discoveries have almost from infancy been the fond object of his attention," he wrote in the Account, but his goal was focused: "The first and most striking object of research was, the discovery of a Southern Continent." He reasoned that "a Continent is wanting on the South of the Equator, to counterpoize the land of the North, and to maintain the earth’s motion." | ||
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