Strangers in the South Seas. The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought, Paperback/*** - University of Hawai\'i Press

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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..
Includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers - some famous, some obscure