Pacific journeys

In 1881 Woodford abruptly left Gravesend and the family business and took a boat to Suva in Fiji to try to establish himself as a collector of natural history specimens that he might sell to museums and collectors back in England. Heath (1974a: 10) finds the decision that brought Woodford to the Pac...

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1. Verfasser:	Lawrence, David Russell
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Zusammenfassung:	In 1881 Woodford abruptly left Gravesend and the family business and took a boat to Suva in Fiji to try to establish himself as a collector of natural history specimens that he might sell to museums and collectors back in England. Heath (1974a: 10) finds the decision that brought Woodford to the Pacific to be somewhat of a puzzle and questions why a young man with a possible career in the family business would begin a wandering rootless life in the South Seas. The stories of Pattisson and Jephson only serve to illustrate that the decisions made by young men