Captain Cook's Third and Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780. Faithfully Abridged from the Quarto Edition Published by Order of His Majesty. Illustrated with Copper Plates

Captain Cook's Third and Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780. Faithfully Abridged from the Quarto Edition Published by Order of His Majesty. Illustrated with Copper Plates

Author: COOK.

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-22

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781385164907

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library N026642 The titlepage is engraved. Frontispiece dated: July 20, 1785. London: printed for John Fielding: and John Stockdale, [1785]. [2], xii,372p., plates: port.; 12°


The Age of Authors

The Age of Authors

Author: Paul Keen

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2013-11-30

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1460403061

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Eighteenth-century critics differed about almost everything, but if there was one point on which they almost universally agreed, it was that they were living through an age of extraordinary change. The texts in this collection respond to a series of fundamental questions about the changing nature of the literary field during a tumultuous age: What types of writing mattered in a thriving commercial nation? What kinds of knowledge ought literature to offer, if it was to continue to be relevant? What did it mean to be an author in this busy modern world, and what sorts of social distinction should authors expect to enjoy? The Age of Authors explores the complexity, sophistication, and creativity with which the eighteenth century literary community (or “republic of letters”) responded to the challenges of the time.