A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11
Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
Rating 3.0- Word count
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English Originals World HistoryTravel Historical DocumentsLocal GazetteerDiscoveryTravel RecordingMaritime HistoryMaritime ExplorationAdventure SpiritAdventure NarrativeWorld TravelogueExotic CultureSummary
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 by Robert KerrAuthor: Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813,Language: English, Class: G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation, Release Date: Mar 16, 2005Editor's review
This is Volume 11 of Robert Kerr's A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, part of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European tradition of compiling voyage literature. Its value lies not in literary style but in its collection of primary or near-primary materials, offering searchable texts for studying the ocean exploration, trade routes, and colonial contact that followed the great voyages of discovery. Readers can see how voyagers of the time recorded coastlines, products, customs, and navigational risks, and can also sense how the exotic was described from a Eurocentric perspective. As a public-domain ebook, it is convenient for full-text searching and excerpting, and suitable as supplementary material for area studies or maritime history courses. Read it with questions in mind and treat it as historical source material rather than popular narrative; specific accounts should be checked against other editions and later scholarship, with attention to the editor's choices and period biases.Who it's for
A good fit for
- University teachers and students in maritime history, colonial history, or the history of geography
- Scholars who need primary voyage literature for textual analysis or citation
- Experienced history readers interested in eighteenth-century European ocean records
- Ebook enthusiasts collecting public-domain geography and travel literature
Not a good fit for
- Ordinary readers hoping for a coherent adventure story or popular narrative
- Readers with limited English reading ability who need a Chinese translation
- Beginning learners expecting modern maps, notes, and introductions
Reading tips
- Read the contents and editor's note first, identify the voyage or region relevant to your topic, then read closely.
- Prepare a world map and a table of historical place names, and mark routes and locations as you go.
- Excerpt key accounts and note volume and page numbers for later checking and citation.
- Read alongside a general history to avoid being led astray by a single perspective.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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FAQ
Is this book a complete general history of voyages?
No. It is Volume 11 of Kerr's multi-volume collection, one part of the compilation; its contents depend on the voyages and regions included in this volume, and its place must be understood in relation to the whole set.Is the English original difficult, and what background is needed?
The text is nineteenth-century English, with long sentences and place-name spellings that differ from modern ones, but overall it is documentary prose. University-level English reading ability is enough to make progress; a map and dictionary will reduce difficulty.Is it suitable as a direct source of quotations for papers?
It can serve as a线索 to historical sources, but you should check the original edition and the editor's changes and consult later critical editions. When quoting directly, state that you are using a public-domain electronic text and give the volume information.This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813 AuthorKerr, Robert (1755-1813) is an author included in the Chinese book database, whose biographical details remain limited in publicly available sources; what can be confirmed is that he left seventeen works. The representative works in the database center on the multi-volume series A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, covering several volumes from Volume 01 to Volume 15 and dealing with compilations of voyages, travel, and geographical exploration. Such works typically organize records of long-distance voyages and accounts of foreign lands across the ages, with narration leaning toward the retelling of historical sources and descriptions of journeys, and they bear a strong documentary and compilatory character. In the database's classification, his works fall under inspirational growth, which may relate to a reading orientation toward exploring the unknown and broadening one's horizons. Overall, he appears more a compiler than an original narrator, and his contribution lies in gathering scattered voyage and travel literature into collected volumes, making it easier for readers to understand early world transport and geographical knowledge.