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∗I want to thank Doug Munro for his encouragement and assistance in the course of writing this essay, a course not exactly straightforward and consequently a great test of his patience.
1 The published accounts of beachcombers are itemised in H.E. Maude, Of Islands and Men: studies in Pacific history (Melbourne 1968), 170–7; Susan Williams Milcairns, Native Strangers: beachcombers, renegades and castaways in the South Seas (Auckland 2006), 276–9. I.C. Campbell, “Going Native”: captivity narratives and experiences from the South Pacific (Westport, CN 1998), 27–80, provides useful biographical sketches of eleven beachcombers. Other significant works include Francis X. Hezel, ‘The changing role of the beachcomber in the Carolines’, in Niel Gunson, The Changing Pacific: essays in honour of H.E. Maude (Melbourne 1978); 261–72; Thomas Bargatsky, ‘Beachcombers as Innovators’, The Journal of Pacific History, 15:2 (1980), 93–101. The phenomenon of indigenous beachcombing is beyond the scope of any of the above mentioned, but see Rhys Richards, ‘Indigenous beachcombers: the case of Tapeooe, a Tahitian traveller from 1798–1812’, Great Circle, 12:1 (1990), 1–14; David A. Chappell, ‘Secret sharers: indigenous beachcombers in the Pacific Islands’, Pacific Studies, 17:2 (1994), 1–22.
2 Trevor Bentley, Pakeha Maori: the extraordinary story of the Europeans who lived as Maori in early New Zealand (Auckland 2004); Joan Druett, Petticoat Whalers: whaling wives at sea, 1820–1920 (Auckland 1991); idem, Rough Medicine: surgeons at sea in the age of sail (New York 2000).
3 Susanne Margaret Milcairns, ‘Accidental explorers, unsuitable authors: the textual strategies of the Pacific beachcomber, 1783–1867’, PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington (Wellington 2005).
4 See Jennifer Terrell, ‘Joseph Kabri and his notes on the Marquesas’, The Journal of Pacific History, 27:2 (1982), 101–12.
5 Published in 1857, Coral Island’s portrayal of being stranded on a desert island is unrealistic but the book remains in print and was voted one of the top 20 Scottish novels (in 20th place) at the 2005 International World Wide Web Conference.
6 Anders Sparrman, A Voyage around the World with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution (London 1953), 32–3.
7 A.W. Brian Simpson, Cannibalism and the Common Law: the story of the tragic last voyage of the Magnonette and the strange legal proceedings to which it gave rise (Chicago 1984).
8 Greg Dening (ed.), The Marquesan Journal of Edward Robarts, 1797–1824 (Canberra 1974).
9 Maude, Of Islands and Men, 135.
10 Campbell, ‘Gone Native’ in Polynesia, 95–110.
11 John Nicholson, White Chief: the colourful life and times of Judge F.E. Maning of the Hokianga (Auckland 2006), and Cathy Ross, Women with a Mission: rediscovering missionary wives in early New Zealand (Auckland 2006) are further ‘popular’ histories under the imprint of Penguin Group (NZ), which is increasingly pitching its publications to a wider audience. For more scholarly comparisons, see F.E. Maning, Old New Zealand and Other Writings, ed. Alex Calder (Leicester 2001); Patricia Grimshaw, Paths of Duty: American missionary wives in nineteenth-century Hawaii (Honolulu 1989). The question of the non-specialist reading public is usefully discussed by Stefan Collini, English Pasts: essays in history and culture (Oxford 1999), ch. 16.
12 Greg Dening, Islands and Beaches. Discourse on a Silent Land: Marquesas, 1774–1880 (Melbourne 1980); idem, Performances (Melbourne 1996); Inga Clendinnen, Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Aborigines at first contact (Cambridge 2005).
13 J.L. Austin, How To Do Things with Words: the William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955, ed. J.O. Urmson (Oxford 1962).
14 Greg Dening, Mr Bligh's Bad Language: passion, power and theatre on the Bounty (Cambridge 1992).
15 Clendinnen, Dancing with Strangers, 8.
16 Ann Salmond, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (London 2003), 210.
17 William Ellis, Polynesian Researches in the South Seas (London 1829), vol. 1, 319; Salmon, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, 202.
18 Campbell, ‘Gone Native’ in Polynesia, 79.
19 Marshall D. Sahlins, Islands of History (Chicago 1985), 38.
20 Jonathan Lamb, ‘The New Zealand Sublime’, Meanjin, 49:4 (1990), 663–75; Laura Moss, ‘The re-emergence of a nation: Ian Wedde's Symmes Hole’, Revue Frontenac Review, 12 (1995), 52–66.
21 Clendinnen, Dancing with Strangers, 43.
22 Dening, Performances, 203.
23 Not to be confused with the ‘history wars’ involving the Australian historical profession. Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark, The History Wars, 2nd edn (Melbourne 2004).
24 Gavan Daws, ‘Texts and Contexts: a first-person note’, The Journal of Pacific History, 41:2 (2006), 249–60; Inga Clendinnen, ‘Who Owns the Past?’ Quarterly Essay, 23 (2006), 1–70.
25 Annamarie Jagose, Slow Water (Wellington 2003); Stephen R. Bown, Scurvy: how a surgeon, a mariner, and a gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail (New York 2004); Glynwyr Williams, The Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century: overseas rivalry, discovery and exploitation (London 1966); idem, The Great South Sea: English voyages and encounters, 1570–1750 (New Haven 1997); idem, The Prize of all the Oceans: Commodore Anson's daring voyage and triumphant capture of the Spanish treasure galleon (New York 2001); Nicholas Thomas, Discoveries: the voyages of Captain Cook (London 2003). *[Editors' note: Daws was referring to observations he made in the 1980s.]
26 Daws, ‘Texts and Contexts’, 255, 260.
27 Kate Grenville, The Secret River (Melbourne 2005), 19, 213.
28 Clendinnen, ‘Who Owns the Past?’ 20.
29 Daws, ‘Texts and Contexts’, 257–8.
30 Ibid., 251
31 Cited in Campbell, ‘Gone Native’ in Polynesia, 74.