The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778) tells the story of a fictional midshipman abandoned in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, after a battle with Maori that claims the lives of ten of his shipmates. Inspired by an actual event on Captain Cooks second voyage, Bowmans adventures take him to increasingly sophisticated cultureshunter/ gatherer, pastoral/nomadic, agricultural, and commercialthat dramatize stadial history in a Pacific setting. The work provocatively weaves together popular fascination with Cooks voyages, sensational conceptions of the newly charted Pacific, contemporary ideas on human development and culture, topical satire on London life, and a fanciful castaway story. As an introduction to the cultural connections linking Pacific studies, the Scottish Enlightenment, and eighteenthcentury English society and politics, The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman is unique in literary history and unsurpassed as a teaching text. Of equal importance, it marks the birth of a national literature. It is the first New Zealand novel.Historical appendices provide an exceptionally broad range of materials on the Grass Cove massacre, the eighteenthcentury stadial theory of historical development, cannibalism, and contemporary depictions of the South Pacific and its indigenous peoples.

Binding: Paperback;256 pages; Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd; Classification: FC; Weight: 415 g; Dimensions: 142 x 215 x 13

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