Pirating the Pacific
Subtitle: images of travel, trade & tourism
By: edited by Ann Stephen.
Contributors: Stephen, Ann.; Powerhouse Museum.
Publisher: Powerhouse Pub.
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Haymarket, NSW, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Powerhouse Museum -- Exhibitions.; Pacific Islanders -- Exhibitions.; Pacific Islanders -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.; Advertising -- Tourism.; Tourism -- Oceania -- History -- Exhibitions.
Description: "Over the last century, sources as diverse as missionary publications, tourist brochures, travel books, paintings, postcards and museum displays have inspired a fascination and romance with the islands of the 'South Seas' - amongst them, Tonga, Western Samoa, the Cook Islands and French Polynesia."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 79)
Published to coincide with the exhibition "South Pacific Stories" at the Powerhouse Museum, Sep. 1993-Oct. 1994.