“Our People are very much unacquainted with those Seas.” A study of paratexts in the English translation of Frézier’s Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud (1717)
This article examines the English translation of Amédée François Frézier’s Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux côtes du Chili, du Pérou, et du Brésil, fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714, printed by Jonah Bowyer in 1717. I argue that this English translation situated Frézier’s work at the centre of a vibrant...