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Pirating the Pacific : images of travel, trade & tourism / edited by Ann Stephen.

Title
Pirating the Pacific : images of travel, trade & tourism / edited by Ann Stephen.
Publication
Haymarket, NSW, Australia : Powerhouse Pub., 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Stephen, Ann.
  • Powerhouse Museum.
Description
79 p. : ill. (some col.); 21 x 27 cm.
Summary
"Over the last century, sources as diverse as missionary publications, tourist brochures, travel books, paintings, postcards and museum displays have inspired a fascination and romance with the islands of the 'South Seas' - amongst them, Tonga, Western Samoa, the Cook Islands and French Polynesia."--Publisher description.
Subject
  • Powerhouse Museum > Exhibitions
  • Pacific Islanders > Exhibitions
  • Pacific Islanders > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
  • Advertising > History > Oceania > Exhibitions
  • Tourism > Oceania > History > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Exhibition, pictorial works
  • History
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition, pictorial works.
  • History.
Note
  • Published to coincide with the exhibition "South Pacific Stories" at the Powerhouse Museum, Sep. 1993-Oct. 1994.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 79)
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
'I could not see as much as I desired' / Ross Gibson -- The beautiful and the damned / Nicholas Thomas -- Familiarising the South Pacific / Ann Stephen.
ISBN
1863170421
LCCN
^^^94108030^
OCLC
  • 31887672
  • SCSB-12317770
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library