’Man is seldom content to witness beauty. He must possess it.’ Representations of encounters, experiences, and engagements with albatross in the shipboard accounts of migrants and crew voyaging by sailing ship to New Zealand in the nineteenth century. ...
My thesis draws on more than three hundred and fifty accounts penned by migrants to nineteenth-century New Zealand to recover an important aspect of shipboard life which has hitherto been marginalised within the existing historiography. It seeks to recover the interactions of crew and passengers wit...
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ftdatacite:10.26021/15096 2023-12-03T10:30:39+01:00 ’Man is seldom content to witness beauty. He must possess it.’ Representations of encounters, experiences, and engagements with albatross in the shipboard accounts of migrants and crew voyaging by sailing ship to New Zealand in the nineteenth century. ... Donnithorne, Louise Carolyn 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.26021/15096 https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/106305 en eng University of Canterbury All Rights Reserved https://canterbury.libguides.com/rights/theses Other article CreativeWork Theses / Dissertations 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.26021/15096 2023-11-03T11:07:44Z My thesis draws on more than three hundred and fifty accounts penned by migrants to nineteenth-century New Zealand to recover an important aspect of shipboard life which has hitherto been marginalised within the existing historiography. It seeks to recover the interactions of crew and passengers with albatross through the southern latitudes of the Southern Ocean. Of all the marine and avian creatures encountered on the voyage out, it was albatross that left the strongest impressions on almost all migrant writers. The surviving evidence shows that shooting and ‘fishing’ for albatross were common forms of shipboard entertainment and integral to the individual and collective experience of voyaging to New Zealand by sailing ship. Yet historians of this maritime era have overlooked the opportunity to examine, in depth, what motivated crew and passengers aboard migrant vessels to mercilessly hunt these birds. In this thesis, I will show that shooting albatross as target practice or catching these birds with a ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) New Zealand Southern Ocean |
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My thesis draws on more than three hundred and fifty accounts penned by migrants to nineteenth-century New Zealand to recover an important aspect of shipboard life which has hitherto been marginalised within the existing historiography. It seeks to recover the interactions of crew and passengers with albatross through the southern latitudes of the Southern Ocean. Of all the marine and avian creatures encountered on the voyage out, it was albatross that left the strongest impressions on almost all migrant writers. The surviving evidence shows that shooting and ‘fishing’ for albatross were common forms of shipboard entertainment and integral to the individual and collective experience of voyaging to New Zealand by sailing ship. Yet historians of this maritime era have overlooked the opportunity to examine, in depth, what motivated crew and passengers aboard migrant vessels to mercilessly hunt these birds. In this thesis, I will show that shooting albatross as target practice or catching these birds with a ... |
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’Man is seldom content to witness beauty. He must possess it.’ Representations of encounters, experiences, and engagements with albatross in the shipboard accounts of migrants and crew voyaging by sailing ship to New Zealand in the nineteenth century. ... |
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’Man is seldom content to witness beauty. He must possess it.’ Representations of encounters, experiences, and engagements with albatross in the shipboard accounts of migrants and crew voyaging by sailing ship to New Zealand in the nineteenth century. ... |
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