European Vision and the South Pacific"Discusses the European interpretation of the Pacific in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It considers the work of artists attached to scientific voyages of discovery and exploration from the time of Cook to the time of Dumont d'Urville and elucidates the ways in which their work is related to the scientific interestes and prevailing ideas of their eras."--Book jacket. |
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Contents
The European and the Pacific | 1 |
Cooks First Voyage | 8 |
Cooks Second Voyage | 53 |
Cooks Third Voyage | 108 |
European Reactions to the Pacific 17881802 | 133 |
Settlement at Port Jackson 17881800 | 159 |
Exploration in the South Seas and Typical Landscape | 189 |
British Reactions to Australian Nature 180021 | 213 |
Colonial Interpretations of the Australian Landscape | 234 |
Art Science and Taste in Australia 183550 | 272 |
The Ignoble and the Romantic Savage 182050 | 317 |
The Triumph of Science 182050 | 333 |
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| Title | European Vision and the South Pacific Oxford paperbacks |
| Authors | Bernard Smith, Bernard William Smith |
| Edition | unabridged |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1985 |
| ISBN | 0300028156, 9780300028157 |
| Length | 370 pages |
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