The Paperback Reprint of Anne Salmond's bestselling book on Captain Cook's voyages in the Pacific. The Pacific voyages of James Cook sailed across perilous tropical seas, survived hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, discovered unknown lands and peoples and made their Captain an icon of imperial history. Yet, as Anne Salmond shows, the story of these epic South Sea journeys is far more than one of conquest and control. She has devoted a lifetime to the study of relations between Europeans and Polynesians, and this book is the result. In Salmond's account, Cook's great voyages regain their dreamlike quality as they encounter the last major human communities untouched by wider worlds. Far from being little wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, his ships and the men in them are as much changed by what happens as the islanders they meet. We see them alarmed and entranced by the islanders' open sexuality, shocked by human sacrifice and cannibalism, but also forging relationships with Pacific Island friends and lovers, acquiring tattoos and learning to speak Polynesian languages, with Cook himself granted the status of high chief in many areas before his violent downfall.

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog : Captain Cook in the South Seas

SALMOND, Anne

History

Penguin??Books

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A masterful retelling of three voyages that changed the world This vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook’s great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the island peoples they “discovered.” While Cook and his men were initially confounded by the Polynesians, they were also curious. Cook and his crew soon formed friendships—and often more intimate relationships—with the islanders. The islanders, who initially were not certain if the Englishmen were even human, came to experiment with Western customs and in some cases joined the voyagers on their expeditions. But familiarity quickly bred contempt. Shipboard discipline was threatened by these new relationships, and the culture of the islands was also changed forever. Captain Cook, initially determined to act as an enlightened leader, saw his resolve falter during the third voyage. Amicable relations turned hostile, culminating in Cook’s violent death on the shores of Hawaii. In this masterful account of Cook’s voyages, Anne Salmond—a preeminent authority on the history of the south seas—reimagines two worlds that collided in the eighteenth century, and the enduring impact of that collision.

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas

Americas

Yale University Press

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 this groundbreaking book, Anne Salmond takes readers to the center of the shared history to furnish rich insights into Tahitian perceptions of the visitors while illuminating the full extent of European fascination with Tahiti. As she discerns the impact and meaning of the European effect on the islands, she demonstrates how, during the early contact period, the mythologies of Europe and Tahiti intersected and became entwined. Drawing on Tahitian oral histories, European manuscripts and artworks, collections of Tahitian artifacts, and illustrated with contemporary sketches, paintings, and engravings from the voyages, Aphrodite's Island provides a vivid account of the Europeans' Tahitian adventures. At the same time, the book's compelling insights into Tahitian life significantly change the way we view the history of this small island during a period when it became a crossroads for Europe.

Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti

University of California Press

In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a key episode in the history of the world, rather than simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts with a fresh perspective the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh’s life in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific islanders as players. Beginning in 1777, when Bligh, at twenty-two, first arrived in Tahiti with Captain Cook, Salmond charts Bligh’s three Pacific voyages―and tells how they transformed lives on the islands as well as on board the ships and back in Europe. She sheds new insight into the mutiny aboard the Bounty―and on Bligh’s remarkable 3,000-mile journey across the Pacific in a small boat―through revelations from the raw, unguarded letters between him and his wife Betsy. This beautifully told story reveals Bligh for the first time, as an important ethnographer adding to the paradoxical legacy of this famed seaman, and it captures more definitively than ever the excitement, drama, and terror of these events.

BLIGH: William Bligh in the South Seas

Historical

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 this groundbreaking book, Anne Salmond takes readers to the center of the shared history to furnish rich insights into Tahitian perceptions of the visitors while illuminating the full extent of European fascination with Tahiti. As she discerns the impact and meaning of the European effect on the islands, she demonstrates how, during the early contact period, the mythologies of Europe and Tahiti intersected and became entwined. Drawing on Tahitian oral histories, European manuscripts and artworks, collections of Tahitian artifacts, and illustrated with contemporary sketches, paintings, and engravings from the voyages, Aphrodite's Island provides a vivid account of the Europeans' Tahitian adventures. At the same time, the book's compelling insights into Tahitian life significantly change the way we view the history of this small island during a period when it became a crossroads for Europe.

Europe

Between worlds: Early exchanges between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815

Viking/Allen Lane

This text provides an account of Cook's South Sea voyages, in which Cook plunged south to discover Antarctica and then veered north to discover Hawaii. In Anne Salmond's narrative, Cook's ships, far from remaining little wooden islands of Englishness in a Polynesian sea, become ever more tangled in the worlds they encounter, leaving Cook's tattooed, dazzled sailors just as altered as the Polynesians themselves.

Trial Of The Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook In The South Seas (Allen Lane History) by Anne Salmond (2003-04-29)

Allen Lane.

An ethnographic approach to the story of the first meetings between Maori and Europeans in New Zealand. Drawing on local tribal knowledge as well as European accounts, Salmond discredits the modern histories that trace their lineage from European discovery tales, and clearly reveals that both Maori and Europeans were active in these meetings and followed their own practical and political agendas. Thoroughly illustrated in b&w. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Univ of Hawaii Pr

Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans, 1642 1772

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The Trial of the Cannibal Dog : Captain Cook in the South Seas

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas

Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti

BLIGH: William Bligh in the South Seas

Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti

Between worlds: Early exchanges between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815

Trial Of The Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook In The South Seas (Allen Lane History) by Anne Salmond (2003-04-29)

Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772

Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans, 1642 1772