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Le mûrier et l'épée: le Cabinet de Charles Daniel de Meuron et l'origine du Musée d'ethnographie à Neu-châtel
[The mulberry tree and the sword: the Cabinet of Charles Daniel de Meuron and the origin of the Ethnographic Museum in Neuchâtel] Kaehr, Roland. 2000
Resolution: Captain Cook's Second Voyage of Discovery Aughton, Peter. 2004
The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768 (edited by John Dunmore) Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de. 2002
The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794. The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina.
Vol. I. Cadiz to Panama. 2001
Vol. II. Panama to the Philippines. 2003
Sharks that walk on land Palmer, Ron. 2003
James King R.N.: Captain Cook Is Killed But His Third Voyage Of Discovery Goes On Bolton King, John. 2004
Australian Navigators Tiley, Robert. 2002
Curiosities from the Endeavour: A forgotten collection - Pacific Artefacts Given by Joseph Banks to Christ Church, Oxford after the First Voyage Coote, Jeremy. 2004
By Nicholas Thomas, published by Allen Lane in 2003 (ISBN 0 713 99557 2).
Thomas is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and it is the interaction of people with which he is concerned in this book, the interaction between Cook and his crew (including the artists) and the indigenous people they encountered on the voyages. As Thomas explains in his introduction Cook's ". . . life is my lens, for a new look at these formative encounters" with other cultures. Thomas is not so much repeating the well known story of Cook and his exploration; rather he is examining the voyages from an anthropologist's viewpoint, being more concerned with the interaction of new cultures and people, than with the technological, geographical and navigational aspects.
Too often, when you read a biography of a long dead person, it is all too easy to keep in your mind the knowledge of what happens next. Most biographies start with the birth and end with the death. Thomas's book is slightly different in that immediately the reader is catapulted into the year 1767 and the preparations of the first voyage. As the name of the book implies, it is the voyages which tell the story; Cook's childhood and early career serve only as material which the reader is filled in on briefly, to explain how Cook got to be in charge of the Endeavour. Thomas tries to write without the benefit of hindsight, which to a large degree I believe he succeeds in.
I approached this book with anticipation but wondering why, and how, another book could be written on Cook, when there have been so many published beforehand. However, I feel Thomas adds something to the debate surrounding Cook's life as he reviews some of the aspects and events which I thought were set in stone and give them fresh consideration. After Cook's death, he was for a long time regarded as someone who had done no wrong. In recent years this opinion has been reversed, with the third voyage viewed as a trip during which Cook's mental decline is demonstrated.
Thomas considers these differing views and gives it what I consider to be an interesting summarisation. For example, "Cook's third voyage has often been seen as one marked by the growing, indeed the enveloping fatigue of the great navigator. It is supposed that Cook suffered lapses in his abilities, curiosity and decisiveness; more antagonistic commentators claim that he became detached, irrational, and violent. It is not hard to understand why the tale has been told in these terms: we like it when a great character's life exhibits a rise and fall, and may perhaps be seduced by the notion that a colonizer might collapse, like Conrad's Kurtz, into some black hole of his own evil. But Cook's voyages do not exhibit any such trend. Some of the worst violence occurred in New Zealand as early as 1769, when the man was supposedly saner. And the third voyage is marked by ups and downs, not by any sort of downward spiral." (p.376)
Cook's death is also treated in this way, with Thomas stating previous views and dismissing them; "It has been argued that something in Cook snapped, prompting him to shoot, and this led to his death. But there was nothing perverse or anomalous in his behaviour on the morning of 14 February 1779. He had fired, sometimes with small shot, and sometimes with ball, during both his first and second voyages." (p.396)
One assumes academics will produce good books but that you need a dictionary beside you! It was refreshing to read a book which was written by a normal person! Yes, it was clear that the author was an academic but it was an easy and enjoyable book to read. I have only two minor complaints; first, it would have been nice to have had some of the paintings reproduced in colour as the descriptions are so multi-coloured. And secondly, I wish someone would invent a way of snuggling up to a hardback book in bed!
Highly recommended
Reviewer: Ruth Boreham
Originally published in Cook's Log, page 14, volume 26, number 4 (2003).
[The mulberry tree and the sword: the Cabinet of Charles Daniel de Meuron and the origin of the Ethnographic Museum in Neuchâtel]
By Roland Kaehr, published by Musée d'ethnographie, Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 2000 (ISBN 2 88078 025 X).
The ethnographic items brought back on Cook's voyages by the officers, crew and supernumeraries were kept by some and sold by others. Some became part of museums (such as the famous Leverian Museum) and others were lost. In almost all cases, they were poorly documented and became mixed up with other artifacts brought back by other voyagers to the Pacific, including those of whalers and fur traders.
Roland Kaehr has researched the collections at the Ethnographic Museum in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and believes that some of them may well be from the Cook voyages. Adrienne Kaeppler, the great expert in such matters, wrote to him on 24th February, 1990:
How exciting that you have found what appears to be another Cook voyage collection!
It is not known how Colonel Charles Daniel de Meuron (1738-1806) collected the many items that formed his "Cabinet of Curiosities", but he gave them to the town of Neuchâtel in 1795.
The title of the book was inspired by Meuron's coat-of-arms, which includes a mulberry tree and a sword. The first part of the book deals with the history of the collection. The second is an inventory of the collection, with an illustrated description (some in colour) of each item with supporting evidence of the items' possible origins together with notes on similar examples in other museums.
The whole book is the result of a huge amount of research undertaken by Kaehr "from London to Leningrad for the purposes of comparison" to enable him to verify the authenticity of these wonderful pieces. He warns of the dangers of yielding "to the passion for the celebrated captain, which causes many false attributions" but for many items "Cook affiliation appears nevertheless highly probable, which allows us to add the Neuchatel items to the roughly 2000 known specimens of the three voyages". He found "the geographic origin of the whole of this series of artifacts corresponds in a surprising way to the various key points of Cook's third voyage (1776-1780): New-Zealand, Tonga, Tahiti, Hawaiian Islands, North West coast of America, and Alaska. There are some analogies with the material brought back by the painter and draughtsman John Webber and given to the Library of Bern between 1787 and 1791".
One basket appears in the collection as item 28. The description includes: "The braiding, in particular on the base, and the decoration is characteristic of those from North West America. Possibly collected during Cook's Voyage in the summer of 1778. The extremely tight braiding made it possible for it to hold water, which could be heated by plunging in very hot stones."
I found both skimming through the book looking at the beautiful pictures and later studying the descriptions of the items and the research quite exciting as the Cook connections are so many and so compelling. An index to the people and places mentioned would have improved the book greatly. However, the bibliography is one of the most extensive (30 pages) ever published.
The original text is in French and I am responsible for all translations, good and bad.
The website is at http://www.ne.ch/neuchatel/men/
Reviewer: Ian Boreham
Originally published in Cook's Log, page 15, volume 26, number 4 (2003).
By Peter Aughton, published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in 2004 (ISBN 0 297 83077 5).
I warmed to this book when I read in the Preface the following explanation of the relationship between Banks and Cook: "It was not surprising that the public came to call the recent voyage of discovery 'Joseph Banks's Voyage'. It was not that he deliberately tried to overshadow the achievements of James Cook: he was doing no more than enthusing about his experiences and promoting the great success of the voyage to London society… James Cook was relegated to no more than the chauffeur who had driven the famous Joseph Banks with his entourage and menagerie around the world."
This analogy is one that I have used many times.
This book is not a biography of Cook and there is little mention of his earlier life. However, his visit to Yorkshire with his wife in December 1771 is cleverly used to describe some of his past life. Aughton distinguishes between the known facts of the Cooks' visit and the legends that abound.
The writing is lively with great descriptions of the events during the voyage and how the officers, supernumeraries and crew felt about it. It is not a re-hash of the individuals' journals, though there are some quotes from them, usually quite long. I particularly liked the description of their first encounters with ice in 1772: "Soon the first icebergs appeared. They were a novel sight to most of the crew, creating great excitement as the men thought that they had discovered islands. The mountains of ice were drifting north from the Antarctic and were over two hundred feet tall, towering high above the ships, but they left a wake behind them and it was soon obvious that they consisted only of great floating masses of ice. Forster made some calculations to try to ascertain how much of each iceberg was under water."
A year later in the voyage they have encountered more ice and Aughton decides it is "necessary to pause at this point and put the achievement of the Resolution into perspective, to stand back and see a tiny wooden vessel surrounded and dwarfed by hundreds of great floating icebergs." Then follows a neat summation, with references to later explorers and a quote from one of Cook's famous passages where "Cook dropped his guard and let his emotions appear in his journal".
The Burney family makes several appearances, becoming almost a running theme through the book. Aughton uses James' interest in music (developed by his father Charles) to show the variety of cultures the explorers' found and the difficulty the Europeans had in understanding them.
I spotted two errors. Aughton says the Forsters "joined the ship at Sheerness with all the baggage and paraphernalia of two avid collectors of flora and fauna", whereas Johann Forster records in his journal "my baggage was sent on board the Resolution by the Sheerness paquet" and they "took a post-chaise for Plymouth, the Resolution having left Sheerness". Later, after a good description of how the two ships became separated in stormy weather at New Zealand and how Furneaux handled the discovery that Cook had left before him, Aughton says the Adventure "set sail westwards for the long journey home" whereas they went eastwards. No book is ever perfect, and the second error matters little.
I was impressed with the description of the "method used to chart the coast", given during the exploration of the New Hebrides, sorely lacking in other books, and the selection of some little known events, such as the marriage of seaman Richard Grindal hours before the Resolution had left England and revealed to the others only when the ship arrived back in Plymouth.
The 14 maps spread throughout the book are more than expected and helpful to the story. The 16 illustrations are fewer than I would have liked, but they are all in colour and include some natural history ones by George Forster that rarely appear. This book is one of the few that tells the story of only Cook's Second Voyage. It is a welcome addition.
Reviewer: Ian Boreham
Originally published in Cook's Log, page 29, volume 27, number 2 (2004).
Edited by John Dunmore, published by the Hakluyt Society in 2002 (ISBN 0904180786).
Reading some explorers' narra-tives can be very frustrating when they make refer-ence to other explorers and you want to learn more but are unable to access information about those other people. This is usually the case if the other people were not British. The exploits of foreigners have not always been covered well in Britain.
Thank heavens then for the Hakluyt Society, which exists to publish and promote public knowledge of records of voyages, travels and geographical discovery no matter what nationalities are involved. To this end it carries out a programme of publishing at least two works a year. The journals of many British explorers have been published by the Society but it has also covered the journals of explorers from many other countries and from many periods of history. Their books conform to a very high standard whereby the narratives and journals of explorers and travellers are carefully edited by experts, well versed in the subject. Members of the Cook Society will be acquainted with Beaglehole's editions of Cook's journals.
John Dunmore has done more than anyone to bring our attention to the achievements of eighteenth and nineteenth century French explorers of the Pacific. In the past, the Hakluyt has published his editions of de Surville and Lapérouse. Now the New Zealander has turned his focus on Louis-Antoine de Bougainville.
Bougainville was a polymath and something of a renaissance man. He wrote a textbook on calculus in his twenties; served with Montcalm in Canada (and surrendered to the British in 1760); led the first settlement of the Iles Malouines (Falkland Islands); won the Battle of Chesapeake Bay for the French in 1782; grew roses; fought duels; protected Louis against the Paris mob; avoided the guillotine (just); became a close friend of Napoleon, a Comte and one of the first recipients of the Légion d'Honneur. Among all this he led an expedition across the Pacific.
As would be expected this edition of Bougainville's Pacific journal is a marvellous piece of research. However, it only deals with the middle part of the voyage from the River Plate to the Île de France (Mauritius), omitting the interesting part of the voyage where Bougainville had to hand back the Iles Malouines. The book shows how Bougain-ville's voyage, which predated Cook's as a scientific voyage of exploration, promised much but never quite delivered and allowed Cook the greater glory.
Bougainville led a most remarkable life before and after the voyage and it is good to know that John Dunmore has finished what will be the first proper biography of the man and that is scheduled for publication later this year.
Reviewer: John Robson
Originally published in Cook's Log, page 30, volume 27, number 2 (2004).
Vol. I. Cadiz to Panama
Edited by Andrew David, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Carlos Novi and Glyndwr Williams, published by the Hakluyt Society in 2001 (ISBN 0904180727).
Vol. II. Panama to the Philippines
Edited by Andrew David, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Carlos Novi and Glyndwr Williams, published by the Hakluyt Society in 2003 (ISBN 0904180816).
Alejandro Malaspina is a name probably unknown to most English speaking people, as is the fact that he led one of the great eighteenth century voyages to the Pacific. Part of the reason for this was of Malaspina's own making. On his return to Spain he made an enemy of the King's closest advisor and was imprisoned as a traitor. All his journals and notes were taken from him and so no official account was written, even in Spanish, for nearly fifty years. Even then the role of Malaspina was virtually eliminated.
Malaspina was originally from Palma in northern Italy, at that time under Spanish rule. He joined the Spanish navy and rose in the ranks. He wished to emulate the likes of Cook and Lapérouse and bring some glory once again to Spain so proposed a voyage to the Pacific under his command. This was granted and he sailed in 1789 in two ships. His respect for Cook can be shown in the names of the ships, Atrevida (Resolution) and Descubierta (Discovery). The voyage achieved much, providing new information about Tonga, Alaska, British Columbia and Chile.
Only in recent times has Malaspina been restored to his rightful position as a Pacific explorer. Once again the Hakluyt Society has figured prominently, in conjunction with the Museo Naval in Madrid, by commissioning a group of scholars to translate and edit the material for publication. These scholars have succeeded admirably and readers will recognise among them Andrew David and Glyn Williams, two Cook experts.
Two volumes have appeared so far, which take the voyage as far as mid 1792 at Manila in the Philippines. The first volume covers the expedition rounding South America and reaching Peru. The second volume takes the expedition north to Alaska and back to California and British Columbia before crossing the ocean to Manila. They maintain the Hakluyt's high standard and I look forward to the third and final volume (which should include their half-day visit to New Zealand).
Reviewer: John Robson
Originally published in Cook's Log, page 30, volume 27, number 2 (2004).
By Ron Palmer, published by Trafford Publishing in 2003 (ISBN 1-4120-0688-0).
Many books and millions of words have been written about the life of arguably the world's greatest navigator and explorer James Cook. This book is different from the rest. Firstly it is written as a novel but is as factual as possible. The author has a lifelong regard for Cook and a lifetime's experience at sea. These facts, together with his Yorkshire coast upbringing and on the ground research in Hawaii means that the book becomes as true a reflection of the events described as is possible some 236 years after.
Secondly the book concerns itself only with the last week of Cook's life, and the week after. Cook's death at the hands of Hawaiian natives on St Valentines Day, 14th February, 1779 brought to a tragic and horrific end Cook's life at the (for then) old age of 50.
This life had been one of fabulous exploits but by this time the harshness of sea life had begun to get to him. His first voyage had led to the charting of all of New Zealand and virtually the whole of the eastern coast of Australia. His second consisted of trying to find a further Southern continent and now, on his third voyage an unsuccessful attempt to find a North West passage.
His ship, the Resolution, used by him on the 2nd voyage, was showing her age, mainly due to shoddy dockyard work prior to the voyage, and the urgent repairs necessary had forced him to seek somewhere to effect them. After 3 years at sea you can imagine the state of things.
The book is not for the fainthearted. The bestial behaviour of Cook's men and the butchering practices of the Hawaiian warriors are all accurately described as well as the humane qualities often shown at times. The two stand side by side and it may be difficult for some readers to understand, but that is certainly how it was. It was a completely different world in those days and the reader is brought into graphic contact with it.
The author helps the reader understand this with good descriptions of events that lead up to eventually shape this shocking and gory piece of history. Many will be surprised to see the parts played by other famous seamen, all under Cook's command at the time, notably Bligh and Vancouver.
The reader is left to perhaps decide for himself the main contributing fact to the tragedy.
The author brings out the one fact that is known for sure and that is that almost to a man, Cook was without doubt loved by those who worked with him and was treated with a respect which had been earned by actions, not by responsibilities placed upon him. Buy the book and see for yourself. This book is a must for all those with an affinity towards Captain Cook.
The author now lives on Pender Island, British Columbia, between Vancouver Island and the mainland. By a quirk of fate on Cook's last voyage he made one of his (for him) very rare navigational mistakes and "missed" out the Juan de Fuca straits separating Vancouver Island from the mainland of Canada/USA. This was due to gales blowing him from the coast which he did not regain until landing at Nootka Sound. It was of course left to Vancouver on a future trip to complete the accurate survey of this part of the Canadian coast. The author is also planning a voyage round the world in his yacht he constructed himself named Ron's Endeavour. Not bad for someone of 70 years of age.
Reviewer: Norman Scholes
Originally published in Cook's Log, page 31, volume 27, number 2 (2004).
By John Bolton King, published by South West Maritime History Society in 2004 (ISBN 0 9526455 3 X).
At last, a book about James King!
Not another book about James Cook or Joseph Banks, nor even the often neglected Charles Clerke, but one about James King who is usually remembered as the man in command of the Discovery after the death of Captain Clerke in August 1779. He went on to become one of the authors of the official account of the Third Voyage, covering the last part of the voyage from just before Cook's death.
King had not sailed with Cook before joining as second lieutenant on the Resolution in February 1776. He came with both a scientific as well as naval background, having studies mathematics in Paris and astronomy at Oxford. He was engaged, along with Cook, by the Board of Longitude to "make all the necessary Astronomical and Nautical Observations that should accrue", as Cook recorded in his journal on 11th June 1776.
The book starts with the ships' arrival at Hawaii, rather than the birth and childhood of James King, which do not appear until chapter 22! Here we learn that "He had been born in Clitheroe in 1750, one of the eight children of Dean King, the Vicar of that place, and his wife Anne… James' early education had been at Clitheroe Grammar School. At the age of twelve he had entered the Royal Navy and served, in turn, under Lord Rodney, Sir Hugh Palliser and Earl St. Vincent. As a midshipman, he was under Palliser on the Newfoundland Station at the time Lieutenant James Cook, eleven years his senior, was serving there as Marine Surveyor".
It is surprising there is no information about the ships he served on, nor about Rodney, Palliser and Vincent. These names may not be well known to the general reader that the book is aimed at. However, when King mentions other officers and crew in his journals, Bolton King always explains their role and something of their past and future lives.
Bolton King has an easy going style that is pleasant to read, though occasionally there is some stiffness. Considering the large amount that King wrote in his journal it is good to see that Bolton King has not quoted from him in great swathes. Rather, the quotes are selective and pertinent. Instead we get a description of what occurred based on the official account of the voyage and King's own manuscript journals. I would have liked to have known which passages came from the official account and which from his manuscript journals, as the latter would have been rawer and fresh, as they were written on the spot whereas the former were the words polished for the public.
On occasions Bolton King compares a scene with the modern day. For example, when the ships approached Macau, he writes "Taipa is now connected to the mainland by a one and a half mile 132.long bridge. However, Resolution and Dis-covery were eventually directed to an anchorage in the Macao Road, a position which was to the east of a second bridge, built in 1992-3." And a few pages later "Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, Macau is completely over-shadowed as a trading post by its near neighbour Hong Kong. Two hundred years ago it was Macau that was the centre of international commerce for the south east Asian coast." These are valuable additions.
By studying King's handwriting Bolton King makes some interesting conclusions about King's health. When the ships leave Macau he writes "Judging by the odd remark and changes in his handwriting, King was not now in the best of health. One might conjecture that he was already beginning to suffer from the disease, which would eventually kill him." At Simonstown Bay, South Africa, Bolton King remarks "He, himself, must have been feeling better, as the writing in his manuscript journal was much tidier than it had become in south east Asian waters."
There are minor errors, such as Resolution and Discovery being described as "converted Whitby barques". The Endeavour was a bark, but these two ships were not; Cook used the word sloop.
The book includes over 20 illustrations from the official account of the voyage, plus a few others, such as "A page from James King's Working Journal for January 29th to February 6th 1780 detailing their arrival at Pula Condore". One curious addition is the "line drawings of the Earl of Pembroke later HMS Endeavour". The Endeavour is nice to see but of a different shape to the ships sailed by King.
Bolton King describes King's life after the ships returned to Britain, including a remarkable feat of navigation while escorting a very large convoy of 500 merchantmen to the West Indies. Bolton King's personal insight to the man and his family is shown clearly in the remark "It has been said by succeeding generations of the King family, that, overnight, James' hair turned from brown to grey."
The story ends with a tribute: "During his short life James King had amply proved his abilities as a seaman, nautical tactician, astronomer and geographer; all with an unpretentious bearing of authority. This was a man of whom many said in one way or another that they had been glad to be his friend, and that his firmness, coupled with a natural politeness, brought great advantages, other than the skills for which he had been engaged, to the expedition and many times saved bloodshed, when Cook and some other officers with quick tempers might have acted too hastily."
The book has four useful appendices:
1. Admiralty Sailing Instruction To James Cook
2. Prices For Provisions At Canton – 1780
3. Principles Of Global Navigation, as practised by Captain Cook and his officers; much simplified.
4. Elementary Glossary Of Nautical Terms
A welcome addition to our knowledge of the men who were close to Cook during his life.
Though a slim volume it is THE book to read this year.
Reviewer: Ian Boreham
Originally published in Cook's Log, page 35, volume 27, number 3 (2004).
By Robert Tiley. Published by Kangaroo Press, Australia, 2002 (ISBN 0 7318 1118 6).
I purchased this book largely as a result of my surprise at encountering a lone copy in a bookshop in Basildon, Essex, UK a town not known for its interest in matters maritime or antipodean! But I was glad that I made the purchase as the book’s 244 pages have added greatly to my knowledge and interpretation of Cook, his contemporary explorers, and their successors.
The author’s interest in antique books and maps prompted this work, although it is interesting to note that the first name in his Acknowledgements is that of Geoffrey Ingleton, the Australian maritime historian and illustrator who died in 1998. The book is packed with sufficient information to enable the reader to place the voyages of Cook et al into political context on a global scale. On many occasions I found that the book provided me with answers to questions that had never entered my head!
Tilley highlights Cook’s role in unknowingly establishing a dynasty of successful British navigators, and he undertakes an interesting analysis of those many variables that may determine whether or not an expedition will lead to success or failure.
The book goes on to chart the chronological exploration of the Australian coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; a saga of voyages, encounters and wrecks that reflect the same spirit of adventure that drove Cook across the Pacific. The book ends with the race between Flinders and Baudin to publish the first map of the complete coastline - which was won by the French in 1811. The author has thoughtfully included a glossary for non-maritime readers, and a useful list of books for further reading.
A jolly good read - if you can find a copy.
Reviewer: Cliff Thornton
Originally published in Cook's Log, page 27, volume 27, number 4 (2004).
By Jeremy Coote. Published by the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby, 2004.
One of the pictures I have always liked is the portrait of Joseph Banks Benjamin West, painted when Banks would have been about 34. It is the frontispiece to this catalogue, and there is a close-up of Banks from it on the front cover. The catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition of the artefacts at the museum from 6 March to 31 October 2004 (though the catalogue incorrectly says to 30 November).
Jeremy Coote is curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, and so well placed to write about the collection. Amazingly, the museum didn’t know they had the collection until 2002! [See Cook’s Log, page 4, vol. 27, no. 2 (2004).] This collection is particularly important, as there is only one other documented first-voyage collection, held at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. It was given by the Earl of Sandwich to Trinity College in 1771. The book starts by explaining a brief history of the Pitt Rivers Museum, and the background to their collection (and its importance). Research into the collection is ongoing, so a full account and history of it will be some time in coming. Coote then goes on to discuss Joseph Banks, the Voyage and the Christ church connection, and what is known so far of the collection. The rest of the book is given over to describing the collection itself. The exhibition is presented in four main sections: ‘Polynesian Dress’, ‘Maori Belts’, ‘Maori Hand Weapons’, ‘Tools and Instruments of the Society Islands’, and ‘Maritime Polynesia’. This is reflected in the book. The biggest attraction for me is the fact that it is so well illustrated. Often I find with catalogues of exhibitions they are just a written list. With Coote’s descriptions and the magnificently produced photos, the fact that I have not been to see the exhibition does not seem to matter so much.
I found this book well written and easy to read. Although a catalogue will never make up for not seeing an exhibition first hand, I feel this goes someway of giving me the impression of what is on display.
I look forward to hearing more about Coote’s research.
Reviewer: Ruth Boreham
Originally published in Cook's Log, page 27, volume 27, number 4 (2004).