Representing the South Pacific
Subtitle: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780521550543
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Relations; History: World; Colonies And Colonization; Oceania - History; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Australasia, Oceania & Other Land Areas; International Relations - General; Australian & Oceanian; Oceania; History : Oceania; Literary Criticism & Collections / Australian & Oceanian; Oceania--Relations--Europe; Australia & New Zealand - General; Colonization; Europe
First sentence: The most banal yet awesome fact about the Pacific is its size.