Pacific Romanticism: Tahiti and the European Imagination
- ISBN-10
- 0897897870
- ISBN-13
- 9780897897877
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 134
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- Alexander H. Bolyanatz
Description
Provides a detailed description of European explorers' accounts of Tahiti in 1768 and shows that the romanticism surrounding that time was a result of the French people's misunderstanding of Tahitians' behavior.
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