Strangers in the South Seas : : The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought / / ed. by Richard Lansdown.
Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth. First set down by Egyptian storytellers, Greek philosophers, and Latin poets, such ideas would have a long life and a deep impa...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 32 illus. |
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