Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773–1859 . By Innes M. Keighren, Charles W. J. Withers and Bill Bell.
2016; Oxford University Press; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/library/17.1.78
ISSN1744-8581
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
ResumoFive years after the firm of John Murray was established in 1768 it published its first book on the popular subject of exploration. This was Sydney Parkinson's A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in His Majesty's Ship, the Endeavour. In 1859 the firm published a two-volume work The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present—Savage and Civilised. These two volumes bookend the beginning and end of this study which covers 239 ‘Works of non-European exploration and travel published by the house of Murray’. The seemingly arbitrary end-date of the book marks the virtual ending of the large-scale expeditions supported by the British Government, particularly the Admiralty, which provided a great deal of the source material published by the first three John Murrays. The 239 titles were not the limit of Murray's interest in travel and exploration. The present work focuses exclusively on exploration as opposed to less heroic, but still adventurous travel. Thus books of European travel such as Richard Ford's famous 1845 Hand-book for Travellers in Spain are excluded, as are other volumes in Murray's extensive Hand-book for Travellers series, established in 1836. Many of these covered the same geographical territory as those examined here.
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