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Transit of Venus / Rowan Metcalfe.

Title: Transit of Venus / Rowan Metcalfe.
Author: Metcalfe, Rowan, 1955-2003.
Publication: [Canberra], A.C.T. : Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, 2004.

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Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.

Description

xxiv, 290 p. : maps; 21 cm.

Summary

Tells the story of the mutiny on the Bounty from a new perspective, that of the Tahitian women who joined the Bounty mutineers and sailed away with them to make new lives. Along the way, the reader learns of the Tahitians' fascination with Cook and his expedition to observe the transit of Venus across the southern skies.

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Fiction
History

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committed to retain

ISBN

1740761448

OCLC

57455244
SCSB-10641577

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