Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought

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2006
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Includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers - some famous, some obscure. This book shows how the Great South Sea has been an irreplaceable distant mirror of the West and its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance.

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Includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers - some famous, some obscure. This book shows how ""the Great South Sea"" has been an irreplaceable ""distant mirror"" of the West and its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance.

$33.68

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 429
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 15 May 2006
ISBN 10: 0824830423
ISBN 13: 9780824830427

Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought

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$33.68

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$33.68

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