An account of the Pelew Islands
By: George Keate ; edited by Karen L. Nero and Nicholas Thomas ; assistant editor: Jennifer Newell.
Contributors: Nero, Karen L.; Thomas, Nicholas, 1960-
Series: The literature of travel, exploration, and empire
Publisher: Leicester University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Antelope (Packet); Travel writing.; Palauan language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800.; Palau -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Palau -- Discovery and exploration -- English.; Palau -- Early works to 1800.; Shipwrecks -- Palau -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [392]-397) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Bridging Worlds 1; title: Acknowledgements 5; title: Keate's Account of the Pelew Islands: A View of Koror and Palau 7; title: Karen L. Nero; title: 'The Pelew Islands' in British Culture 27; title: Nicholas Thomas; title: Note on the Text 41; title: George Keate's An Account of the Pelew Islands 43; title: John Pearce Hockin's A Supplement to the Account of the Pelew Islands 270; title: Vocabulary to the First Edition of the Account 326; title: Vocabulary to the Fifth Edition of the Account 335; title: Glossary of Place Names 359; title: Appendix: Objects Collected on the Voyage Now Held at the British Museum Ethnography Department 360.