- Bib ID:
- 4388753
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Scott, Major, (John), 1747-1819
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. SR 827.6 S427 copy
- Description:
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- London : Printed for J. Almon, 1774
- 15 p. ; 24 cm.
- Summary:
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A skit of 172 lines of rhyming verse satirising Banks' amorous activities in Tahiti with Oberea portrayed as Queen of Tahiti. The anonymous author (later identified as John Scott-Waring) cast Banks and the Queen as Ulysses and Calypso mockingly drawing on Hawkesworth's account of the first voyage, claiming to have suppressed several passages from it as being too racy for its readers.
- Notes:
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- The 1st ed. which became popular and went through five eds.
- National Library of Australia's SR 827.6 S427 copy fully rebound (Cambridge) in brown calf with silvered spine decorations and blue leather label; decorative binders label pasted inside back cover.
- SR 827.6 S427 copy also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-238559416
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
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- Also Titled:
- Oberea - Epistle to Joseph Banks.
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1820
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1774
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