Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti by Anne Salmond

Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti

Anne Salmond

544 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
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Aphrodite's Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status that has figured so powerfully in European imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of “savages.” In th...

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