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Australian Maritime Series No. 6 Georg Foster: Cook, The Discoverer | ||
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Glyndwr Williams: The Journal of Pacific History | |
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There is an intensity about some of Forster’s writing which is not found in his earlier account. In that, Forster wrote rather sparsely of the efforts to save the Resolution when she struck a reef off Tahiti in August 1773: ‘the officers, and all the passengers, exerted themselves indiscriminately’. | ||
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Colin Steele: | |
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This comprises the first full translation from the German of Georg Forster's seminal account of James Cook, published in Berlin in 1787 as Cook, der Entdecker. Hordern House commisioned the new English translation, accompanied by an introductory essay from Dr Nigel Erskine of the Australian National Maritime Museum. | ||
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Paul Brunton: Australian Book Review | |
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It seems to me that most of the writing on Cook in the subsequent 220 years has been variations on these themes, either elaborating on them or reacting against them. Forster's essay is a seminal piece, and it is a great service to scholarship that it is now available in English. | ||
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Roy Schreiber, Professor Emeritus: International Journal of Marirtime History June 2008 | |
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Cook, the Discoverer: An Attempted Memorial originally served as the introduction to a German translation of the official account of James Cook's final Pacific voyage. Three people made a contribution to this edition: the translator, the editor and the author. | ||