Strangers in the South Seas

Lansdown, R: 2006 University of Hawaii , softcover, 429 pages, illustrated. Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought, edited by Richard Lansdown, is an annotated anthology of Western writings on the Pacific from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, drawing on travel narratives, missionary accounts, scientific reports and literary texts. The book shows how the “Great South Sea” has served as a distant mirror for Western ideas about exploration, race, religion, empire and modernity, and how encounters with Pacific peoples reshaped intellectual life in Europe and North America. ISBN 9780824830427 in very good condition