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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Moorehead, Alan, 1910- Fatal impact. New York, Harper & Row [1966] (OCoLC)604985361 Online version: Moorehead, Alan, 1910- Fatal impact. New York, Harper & Row [1966] (OCoLC)624425217 |
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| Named Person: | James Cook; James Cook |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Moorehead |
| OCLC Number: | 333365 |
| Description: | xiv, 230 p. illus., maps (1 fold. col.) plates, ports. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Landfall -- Venus observed -- Noble Savage -- Familiarity -- Arcady reformed -- Nevermore -- Bontany Bay -- Australia observed -- Aborigines -- Settlement -- Spreading out -- Acclimatization -- Resolution -- Bloodstained ice. |
Abstract:
Story of social and economic corruption that followed the visits of Captain Cook and other explorers who voyaged to Tahiti, Australia and the Antarctic.
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- Cook, James, -- 1728-1779.
- Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- Discovery and exploration.
- Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
- Antarctica.
- Tahiti (Polynésie française) -- Découverte et exploration.
- Australie -- Découverte et exploration.
- Antarctique.
- Kolonisation
- Ozeanien
