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- Title Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought
- Author Richard Lansdown (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
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- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI
- Date May 30, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780824830427 / 0824830423
- Weight 1.61 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.08 x 0.93 in (22.81 x 15.44 x 2.36 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects East and West, Oceania - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005034632
- Dewey Decimal Code 995
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- Choice, 12/01/2006, Page 697
- Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2006, Page 68
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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…
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