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Contents: Introduction 'The inexhaustible fountain of gold': English projects and ventures in the South Seas, 1670-1750 Buccaneers, castaways, and satirists: the South Seas in the English consciousness before 1750 Anson at Canton, 1743: 'a little secret history' George Anson's Voyage Round the World: the making of a best-seller The beginnings of Britain's exploration of the Pacific Ocean in the 18th-century (with Alan Frost) 'To make discoveries of countries hitherto unknown': the Admiralty and Pacific exploration in the 18th century The Endeavour voyage: a coincidence of motives Tupaia: Polynesian warrior, navigator, high priest - and artist 'Far more happier than we Europeans': reactions to the Australian Aborigines on Cook's voyage The English and Aborigines: first contacts The First Fleet and after: expectation and reality Seamen and philosophers in the South Seas in the age of Captain Cook Explorers and geographers: an uneasy alliance in the 18th-century exploration of the Pacific An 18th-century Spanish investigation into the apocryphal voyage of Admiral Fonte Myth and reality: James Cook and the theoretical geography of Northwest America Myth and reality: the theoretical geography of Northwest America from Cook to Vancouver 'The common center of we discoverers': Sir Joseph Banks, exploration and empire in the late 18th century Index.
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