Captain Cook and the South Pacific /

Five papers by different authors, discussing the background of Cooks voyages and the impact they made on the eighteenth century; paper by A.M. Lysaght separately annotated

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: British Museum
Other Authors: Mitchell, T. C
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Canberra : Australian National University Press, 1979
Series:[British Museum yearbook ; 3]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Bank's artists and his Endeavour collections / A.M. Lysaght
  • Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's pantomine 'Omai, or a trip round the world' and the artists pf Captain Cook's voyages / Rudiger Joppien
  • Ancient Pacific voyaging: Cook's views and the development of interpretation / Brian Durrans
  • Tracing the history of Hawaiian Cook voyage artefacts in the Museum of Mankind / Adrienne l. Kaeppler
  • Art and ethnographica from the Solomon Islands in the Museum of Mankind / Deborah B. Waite