Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Killing the god: the afterlife of Cook's death
- 3 Mutineers and beachcombers
- 4 Missionary endeavours
- 5 Trade and adventure
- 6 Taking up with kanakas: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific
- 7 Skin and bones: Jack London's diseased Pacific
- 8 The French Pacific
- 9 Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
List of illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Killing the god: the afterlife of Cook's death
- 3 Mutineers and beachcombers
- 4 Missionary endeavours
- 5 Trade and adventure
- 6 Taking up with kanakas: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific
- 7 Skin and bones: Jack London's diseased Pacific
- 8 The French Pacific
- 9 Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
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- Representing the South PacificColonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin, pp. xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997