Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters - Critical Perspectives on Empire - Smith, Vanessa (University of Sydney) - Books - Cambridge University Press - 9780521728782 - October 28, 2010
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Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters - Critical Perspectives on Empire


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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     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 28, 2010
ISBN13 9780521728782
Publishers Cambridge University Press
Pages 336
Dimensions 153 × 228 × 17 mm   ·   532 g

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