The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Or Why Did Captain Cook Die: Captain Cook in the South Seas (Allen Lane History S.) - Softcover

Salmond, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0713996617 ISBN 13: 9780713996616

Verlag: Allen Lane, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Physical description: xxii, 506p. : ill. (some col.),maps,ports. ; 24 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p438-442. Subjects: Cook, James 1728-1779 - Travel - Polynesia.

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Reseña del editor:

Anne Salmond has devoted a lifetime to the study of the relations between Europeans and Polynesians. This startling, rich, stylish book is the result.

In Salmond's account Cook's voyages - themselves perhaps the most gripping, brilliant pieces ofnavigation ever attempted, plunging south to discover Antarctica and veering north to discover Hawaii - regain their peculiar, dreamlike quality. Cook's ships, far from remaining little wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, become evermore tangled in the worlds they encounter, leaving Cook's tattoed, dazzled sailors just as altered as the Polynesians themselves.

Biografía del autor:

ANNE SALMOND is Professor of Maori Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Auckland.

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• Verlag: Allen Lane
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0713996617
• ISBN 13: 9780713996616
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528