Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought by Editor-Richard Lansdown - 2006-05-30

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University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Paperback. Like New. 8x6x1. Binding firm, cover shiny, interior clean and unmarked. 429pp. Index, references. A nice, unread copy.

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Honolulu:: University of Hawaii Press, 2006., 2006. 8vo. xvii, [1], 429, [1] pp. Figs., index. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. ISBN 13: 9780824830427 "Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth. First set down by Egyptian storytellers, Greek philosophers, and Latin poets, such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: the noble savage. For the first time Westerners were confronted by a people who seemed happier than themselves. This revolution in the human sciences was accompanied by one in the natural sciences as the region revealed gaps and anomalies in the "great chain of being" that Charles Darwin would begin to address after his momentous visit to the Galapagos Islands. The Pacific produced similar challenges for nineteenth-century researchers… Read More

Univ. Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI, 2006. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Light shelf and corner wear, Text appears clean, Binding is in good sturdy condition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; History. ISBN: 0824830423. ISBN/EAN: 9780824830427. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561014968. . 9780824830427

Paperback / softback. New. 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.

Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2006. Paperback. New. illustrated edition. 429 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches.