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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook European Mythmaking in the Pacific Unknown - 1994
by Gananath Obeyesekere
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When the great navigator and "discoverer" of Polynesia James Cook landed on the shores of Hawai'i on Sunday, 17 January 1779, during the festival of Makahiki, he was greeted as the returning god Lono.
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- Title The Apotheosis of Captain Cook European Mythmaking in the Pacific
- Author Gananath Obeyesekere
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- Pages 272
- Publisher Princeton Univ Pr, Princeton, New Jersey
- Date March 1994
- ISBN 9780691036212
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Second. Paperback. Very good/No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp. 251.paperback edition.""Questioning the circumstances surrounding Captain James Cook's so-called divinity and his death in the Hawaiian Islands in 1779, this study aims to debunk one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization and conquest - the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to the savage.""
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Princeton University Press / Bishop Museum Press, 1994. 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvii, 251pp w appendix, endnotes, bibliography and index. Fourteen indexed figures including frontis. Illustrated wrapper is clean and without edgewear, showing light bumping to bottom front corner. Binding square and not creased. Octavo. Second Princeton Paperback printing, 1994, stated.
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New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press , 1994. Winner of the 1992 Louis Gottschalk Prize for Eighteenth-Century Studies. "Debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, Obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the self-conscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a "savage" himself." Deals with Cooks death in Hawaii. CONDITION pp xvii 251 has some illus. Mildest handling signs.. First Trade. Soft Cover. Very Good/N/A. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Princeton University Press, 1994-03-07. Paperback. Very Good. Very good. Softbound 8vo. In the main text, the author attacks what he sees as Eurocentric interpretations of Cook's last voyage, reception by the Hawaiians, and violent death. 251pp. Index, biblio. Frontis, 14 figures. Reprint. > Language: English | > Size: 8vo | > Media/Binding: Soft cover |
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