Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas
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This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's ships, far from remaining little wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, become ever more tangled in the worlds they encounter, leaving Cook's tattooed, dazzled sailors just as altered as the Polynesians themselves.
Author: Anne Salmond
Format: Hardback, 528 pages, 165mm x 243mm, 925 g
Published: 2003, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Description
This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's ships, far from remaining little wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, become ever more tangled in the worlds they encounter, leaving Cook's tattooed, dazzled sailors just as altered as the Polynesians themselves.
Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas