travel literature - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:50:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg travel literature - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Natural history and scientific literature of travel https://historylab.es/natural-history-and-scientific-literature-of-travel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=natural-history-and-scientific-literature-of-travel Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:33 +0000 https://historylab.es/natural-history-and-scientific-literature-of-travel/ Robert Boyle and his essay General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, Great or Small codifying the scientific literature of travel

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]]> In 1666, in the Royal Society’s scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions, Robert Boyle, the most important exponent of experimental philosophy in late 17th century England, published the short essay General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, Great or small (pp. 186-189). It will be the theoretical framework, in general terms, for travel literature, which will gradually include objective accounts and scientific reports, often accompanied by drawings and illustrations, to give the reader back the reality observed with verifiable accuracy and with increasing attention to anthropological, ethnographic, archaeological… aspects, in order to be able to advance hypotheses of natural history.

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]]> Captain Cook’s Second Pacific Expedition https://historylab.es/captain-cooks-second-pacific-expedition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=captain-cooks-second-pacific-expedition Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:33 +0000 https://historylab.es/captain-cooks-second-pacific-expedition/ The second expedition of Captain Cook (1772-1775), who sailed the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Antarctic Sea, narrated by Georg Forster

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]]> Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg took part in Captain Cook’s second expedition with the task of drawing up a report of the voyage to be published on his return to make the scientific results known; however, due to disagreements with the captain and the Earl of Sandwich, the main financier of the voyage, they lost the publication rights. Georg Forster, then, in 1777 printed A Voyage round the World in His Britannic Majesty’s Sloop Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775, an unofficial report of the voyage written in English. The work was highly appreciated, from a literary and scientific point of view, for its particular focus on ethnographic and anthropological aspects.

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