The RESOLUTION Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster 1772-1775. 4 volumes. 1982. (Hakluyt Society, Second Series, 152-155). XL,554 p. gr8vo. Cloth.

Overshadowed for nearly two hundred years in European scholarship bythe literary and scientific achievements and reputation of his eldestson George Forster, the author of this journal, J.R.Forster, principalnaturalist on James Cook's second voyage, was nevertheless recognized bymany contemporaries as one of the "universal geniuses" of the lateeighteenth century. Among the numerous Forster "treasures" deposited inBerlin is his six-volume journal in the Resolution. As the journal of ahighly literate landsman-at-sea it offers many new typically unrestrained insights into the day-to-day relationships, life and thinking and theory-testing on this, the most scientific and epic of Cook's three voyages.