Pacific Passages

Pacific Passages

Hans-Christian Wachter
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Author:  Hans-Christian Wachter
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  176
Publisher:  The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus
Year:  2008
ISBN:  9781905791569

The first Europeans to catch sight of the islands of the South Seas thought that they had chanced upon paradise, and the tales they told on returning to their homes encouraged all other Europeans to idealise the islands as a tropical Arcadia. The truth was very different and the apparent idyll of the South Sea islanders was shattered by the fatal impact of European discovery.

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