Strangers in the South Seas
Subtitle: the idea of the Pacific in Western thought : an anthology
By: edited by Richard Lansdown.
Contributors: Lansdown, Richard, 1961-
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press; University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780824829025; 9780824830427
Subjects: Travelers' writings, American.; Travelers' writings, European.; East and West.; Oceania -- Civilization -- Foreign influences.; Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- American.; Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- European.; Oceania -- Description and travel.; Oceania -- Social life and customs.; Oceania -- History -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.