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Pacific rising : the emergence of a new world culture / Simon Winchester.
- Title
- Pacific rising : the emergence of a new world culture / Simon Winchester.
- Author
- Winchester, Simon.
- Publication
- New York : Prentice-Hall Press, c1991.
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- Description
- xiv, 496 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "A brilliant portrait of the peoples, history, culture and politics of the Pacific by a gifted and critically acclaimed author who remains fascinated and enthralled by the ocean Herman Melville called 'the tide-beating heart of the earth.'"--Dust jacket inside cover.
- Alternative Title
- Emergence of a new world culture
- Subject
- Pacific Area
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-487) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue -- The great ocean -- Approaches. From a peak in Darién ; The Strait that shall forever bear his name ; "Primus circumdedisti me" ; Down the Malacca ; Across Siberia -- Connections. One: Bands of steel. The cutting edge ; Hauling Australia away ; William the Conqueror's car ; Driving the deficit home -- Two: Threads of silk. The men ; The master ; The money -- Icons. The messengers ; The monster ; The Mac -- Places in the basin. Kauai ; Outback ; Teak bandits ; Relics of old Siam ; Nervous old colony ; Return to the native -- Cities on the rim. Eastern capital ; Metropolis West -- The wave.
- ISBN
- 0138077932 :
- LCCN
- ^^^90071410^
- OCLC
- 23446694
- SCSB-10291424
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library