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| #3042184 in Books | 2001-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.16 | File type: PDF | 359 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting extracts, wretched commentary|By Harry Eagar|Despite its wretched commentary, "Exploration & Exchange" is a useful, mostly interesting collection of short (usually, too short) extracts from European travelers' accounts of the wild Pacific, primarily Polynesia but barely touching Australia, Micronesia and Melanesia. In other words, Europe encountering the Stone Age.<|From the Inside Flap|
European encounters with Pacific peoples often proved as wrenching to the Europeans as to the natives. This anthology gathers some of the most vivid accounts of these cultural exchanges for the first time, placing the works of well-know
"As my sense of the turpitude and guilt of sin was weakened, the vices of the natives appeared less odious and criminal. After a time, I was induced to yield to their allurements, to imitate their manners, and to join them in their sins . . . and it was not long ere I disencumbered myself of my European garment, and contented myself with the native dress. . . ."—from Narrative of the late George Vason, of Nottingham
As George Vason's anguished na...
You easily download any file type for your device.Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology, 1680-1900 | From University Of Chicago Press. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
