An Account of the Voyages:

GA answers:

  • "flaws were found with Hawkesworth's morals, theology, geography, and with the excessive payment he had received": can we expand on these criticisms? The article is quite short, and the criticism sounds like a significant part of the response to it, but we get almost no details.
    See Wallis and Beaglehole.
  • Do modern sources that refer to it have anything interesting to say about its representations and accuracies or inaccuracies, or its biases, or anything of that sort?
    see Binney and Edwards!

Bonus sources:

  • Pearson, W. H. (1973). "Hawkesworth's Voyages". In Brissenden, R.F. (ed.). Studies in the Eighteenth Century II. University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442632448-015. ISBN 978-1-4426-3244-8.
    mentions 20th century criticism about Hawkesworth supporting noble savage primitivism; Pearson defends H against the charge
  • Gascoigne, John (2010). "Pacific Exploration as Religious Critique". Parergon. 27 (1): 143–162. doi:10.1353/pgn.0.0210. ISSN 1832-8334.
    interesting bits about "Providence" and sexual morals and contrast/influence Diderot/Voltaire
  • Spate, O. H. K. (1988). "Seamen and Scientists: The Literature of the Pacific, 1697-1798". In Macleod, Roy; Rehbock, Philip F. (eds.). Nature in its Greatest Extent. University of Hawaii Press. doi:10.1515/9780824890766-004. ISBN 978-0-8248-9076-6.
    use also for Observations! sex. providence. explorer as hero (from Pearson?) check citations
  • Kaufmann, Sebastian (2016-12-01). "Reconstruction--Fiction--Transfer: Imparting Ethno-aesthetic Knowledge in John Hawkesworth's Report on Cook's First Voyage to the South Pacific (1768–1771)". Transfers. 6 (3): 65–82. doi:10.3167/TRANS.2016.060306. ISSN 2045-4813.
    fictitious I. not giving for previous reading.
  • Craciun, Adriana (2013-06-01). "Oceanic voyages, maritime books, and eccentric inscriptions". Atlantic Studies. 10 (2): 170–196. doi:10.1080/14788810.2013.785190. ISSN 1478-8810.
    strahan
  • Abbott, John Lawrence (1982). John Hawkesworth : eighteenth-century man of letters. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-08610-7.
    biography. pp 137–186 deal with the Voyages.