Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea Islands Adventure on HMS Challenger
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Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea Islands Adventure on HMS Challenger

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Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea Islands Adventure on HMS Challenger

About this book

Discover the inspiration for the famed redesign of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. It was the young William Guilfoyle's botanical tour of the South Sea Islands in 1868 that provided his vision for the one of the world's great public parks. Share his excitement of discovering and collecting tropical plants, giving the local cannibals a very wide berth and being an eyewitness to an uprising in Fiji. Here is an unprecedented armchair view of the riches of this region by an emerging botanist who would later transform our understanding of garden design. Mr Guilfoyle's South Sea Islands Adventure on HMS Challenger is Guilfoyle's detailed account of the four months he spent exploring Samoa, the Friendly Islands, Fiji, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. It is the final book of a glorious trilogy— Mr Guilfoyle's Shakespearian Botany and Mr Guilfoyle's Honeymoon, The Gardens of Europe & Great Britain —which illuminates the extraordinary genius of William Guilfoyle, botanist, landscape designer, artist and writer.

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Information

Publisher
Miegunyah Press Digital
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780522874020
eBook ISBN
9780522874037
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. A Botanical Tour Among the South Sea Islands
  5. Taxonomy and Botanical Nomenclature
  6. Persons Featured by W.R. Guilfoyle
  7. Places Featured by W.R. Guilfoyle
  8. 2. Cultural Encounters
  9. Fiji and the Fijians
  10. Guilfoyle and His Party Observe the Fijian Natives Diving
  11. King George Tubou I of the Friendly Islands, Tonga
  12. King Thakambau of Fiji
  13. Residence of Thakambau, Principal Chief of Fiji
  14. Interior of Thakambau’s House
  15. Levuka, the Commercial Capital of Fiji
  16. Rev. Thomas Williams
  17. Kava
  18. Conflict Between H.M.S. Challenger and the Matialobau Tribes
  19. Engagement with the Matialobau Tribes, Fiji, at Deuka, 29 July 1868
  20. Prince Joseph Celua of Fiji
  21. Epilogue for the Rev. Thomas Baker–Fijians killed and ate a missionary in 1867. Yesterday their descendants apologised
  22. 3. Guilfoyle and Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens
  23. Early Years
  24. Guilfoyle’s Inspiration
  25. An Unusual Reservoir
  26. Afterword: H.M.S. Challenger
  27. Endnotes
  28. Bibliography
  29. Acknowledgements
  30. Index