Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin@@@Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

@inproceedings{Brown1999RepresentingTS,
  title={Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin@@@Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters},
  author={Ruth Brown and Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith},
  year={1999}
}
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: acts of reading 1. 'A gift of fabrication': the beachcomber as bricoleur 2. Lip service and conversation 3. 'Other people's books': Stevenson's Pacific travels 4. Piracy and exchange: Stevenson's Pacific fictions 5. In the press of events: Stevenson's Pacific history Afterword: 'the impediment of tongues' Notes Bibliography Index. 
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