European Vision and the South Pacific
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985. Second Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth, gilt letters on spine, tan pictorial dust jacket, 370 pp., many BW illus., 32 color plates. VG (DJ has faded slightly along spine; otherwise clean.). Item #147140
ISBN: 0300028156
"This classic study, now in a fully revised and handsomely illustrated edition, 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 interests and prevailing ideas of their era. ... [Offers] fascinating insights to all historians of ideas, taste, and literature, as well as of art." (dj).
Sorry, this book is not available.
Notify me when this comes back in stock.