Cook's sites
Subtitle: revisiting history
By: Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas.
Contributors: Thomas, Nicholas, 1960-; Australian National University. Centre for Cross-Cultural Research.
Publisher: University of Otago Press with Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: South Island (N.Z.) -- Pictorial works.; South Island (N.Z.) -- Description and travel.
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: The authors of this book have revisited the sites of contact between Cook's crews in Dusky South and Queen Charlotte Sound. The photographs and text examine the traces of the past in these places, opening up ambiguities, and avoiding easy judgements about these early meetings. They have also travelled to Europe, to see where botanical specimens, indigenous artifacts, and the voyagers' documents ended up. Cook's Sites is a revelation: of places of unique historical signficance, and of the intriguing stories woven around them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193).