An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, with an Original Grammar and Vocabulary of their Language, Compiled and Arranged from the Extensive Communications of Mr William Mariner, Several Years Resident in those Islands. Nigal Statham and Ian C. Campbell, eds..Hakluyt Society, Third Series, nº. 41.
by MARTIN, John
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London, By Routledge for The Hakluyt Society, 2022.. FIRST EDITION thus.. Large 8°, publisher's navy cloth, gilt, with light blue dust jacket. Small nick to dust jacket. Otherwise as new. lxxxvii, 464 pp., illustrations, extensive footnotes, bibliography, analytical index. *** FIRST EDITION thus. First published as Account of the Natives of the Tonga Island in the South Pacific Ocean, London: John Murray, 1817. There was a second edition, "with additions" also published by John Murray, and a third, substantially revised, Edinburgh: Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Chance and Co., 1827. There was a French translation of 1819, reprinted in 1822, an American edition of Boston, 1820, a German translation of Weimar, 1819, an abbreviated Swedish version which appeared in a collection of travels in 1828, and several subsequent edition. The present edition is based mainly on that of 1827, with substantial reference to segments of the text of the second which were omitted from the third. John Martin (1789-1869) was an Edinburgh-educated physician based in London, interested in anthropological matters. His chance encounter with William Mariner (1791-1853), a youth who had spent the years 1806-1810 in Tonga, inspired him to write this, his only book. ***
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- An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, with an Original Grammar and Vocabulary of their Language, Compiled and Arranged from the Extensive Communications of Mr William Mariner, Several Years Resident in those Islands. Nigal Statham and Ian C. Campbell, eds..Hakluyt Society, Third Series, nº. 41.
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- MARTIN, John
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- London, By Routledge for The Hakluyt Society, 2022.
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- travel, Tonga Islands, South Pacific, linguistics, grammar, vocabulary, anthropology, Tonga, Tongans, Tongan language
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