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Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters - Critical Perspectives on Empire Smith, Vanessa (University of Sydney)
Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters - Critical Perspectives on Empire
Smith, Vanessa (University of Sydney)
Fascinating study of the the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific. Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that underpinned the colonial encounter from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767 through the voyages of Cook and Bligh.
336 pages, 18 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 28, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521437516 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 234 × 27 mm · 622 g |
| Language | English |
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