Minute Particulars and the Representation of South Pacific Discovery

Abstract

\n In her recent book Imperial Eyes, Mary Louise Pratt retells one of the famous stories of European exploration. It is Mungo Park's moment of crisis in darkest Africa, when—naked and alone after being robbed and left for dead by local banditti, and prey to "savage animals and men still more savage"—his rising despair is dispersed by a vision, or what Wordsworth would have called a spot of time:\n

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