An edition of Strangers in the South Seas (2006)
Strangers in the South Seas
the idea of the Pacific in Western thought : an anthology
By Richard Lansdown
Publish Date
2006
Publisher
University of Hawaiʻi Press,University of Hawaii Press
Language
eng
Pages
429
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