Title: Strangers in the South Seas
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.
Subjects: East and West, Social life and customs, Description and travel, Foreign influences, Travelers' writings, European, Travelers' writings, American, Sources, American, Civilization, European, Discovery and exploration, History, Oceania, description and travel, Oceania, discovery and exploration, Oceania, history, Oceania, social life and customs, Travelers' writings, Cultuurcontact, Beeldvorming, Niet-westerse volken
Places: Oceania