Writing the Voyage of Scientific Exploration: The Logbooks, Journals and Notes of the Baudin Expedition (1800–1804)

Sankey, Margaret

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“…The history of the European colonisation of Australia and New Zealand is closely linked to eighteenth century European culture and economic developments. Romanticism's inauguration as a cultural movement, customarily connected to the publication of Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads in 1798 (Corn, 1999), occurred during the period that both French and British expeditions were in active pursuit of Terra Australis (Sankey, 2010;Wantrup, 1988). The theme of loss and nostalgia for the past was common to both of these enterprises, despite their vastly different emphases.…”

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The Itineraries of French Explorers: Tourism, Heritage, and Cultural Diplomacy

Paquette

2021

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Whaling intelligence: news, facts and US-American exploration in the Pacific

Lüttge

2019

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This paper investigates the history of a discursive figure that one could call the intelligent whaler. I argue that this figure's success was made possible by the construal and public distribution of whaling intelligence in an important currency of science – facts – in the preparatory phase for the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842). The strongest case for the necessity of the enterprise was New England whalers who were said to cruise uncharted parts of the oceans and whose discoveries of uncharted islands were reported in the local press. The document that stood at the core of the lobbying for an expedition was a table that newspaperman and public lecturer Jeremiah Reynolds had compiled after interviewing whaling captains in the country's principal whaling ports. Presenting whalers’ experience in tabular and synoptic form, Reynolds's table helped forge the figure of the ‘intelligent whaler’, a mariner who had better geographical knowledge than other seafarers. By investigating the paper technologies that produced the ‘intelligent whaler’, this paper shows how Reynolds's translation of ‘whaling intelligence’ from news into facts marks the beginning of the intelligent whaler's long career in US-American debates about expansionism, exploration and science.

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Writing the Voyage of Scientific Exploration: The Logbooks, Journals and Notes of the Baudin Expedition (1800–1804)

Cited by 10 publications

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Editorial Introduction

Editorial Introduction

The Itineraries of French Explorers: Tourism, Heritage, and Cultural Diplomacy

Whaling intelligence: news, facts and US-American exploration in the Pacific

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