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Record 9930

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I shall give them from a book called a "Collection of Voyages by the Dutch East Company", Lond. 1703, p. 116, where, supposing the author who speaks of ten numbers and gives only nine to have lost the fifth, their similarity is beyond dispute.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 14 Aug 1769 and 15 Aug 1769
Country: 'Pacific Ocean'
Time: n/a
Place: other location: at sea, onboard HMS Endeavour
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Joseph Banks
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 13 Feb 1743
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Naturalist
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: 'Pacific Ocean'
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Rene Augustin Constantin de Renneville
Title: A collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the improvement of trade & navigation ...
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: London, Printed for W. Freeman, J. Walthoe, Tho. Newborough, John Nicholson, and R. Parker, 1703.
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 9930  
Source - Print  
  Author: Joseph Banks
  Editor: Joseph Hooker
  Title: Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., KB PRS During Captain Cook's first Voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc.
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1896
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 165
  Additional comments: Publisher MacMillan & Co. Ltd.

Citation: Joseph Banks, Joseph Hooker (ed.), Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., KB PRS During Captain Cook's first Voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies etc. (London, 1896), p. 165, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9930, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Date of birth stated to be 2 February 1743 (o.s.) in book, this has been corrected to new style date. Page reference given is not an editorial addition, so Banks must have had the book in front of him when writing. Banks read the book in the English translation.

 

 

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