Language: English
Published by Auckland University Press/Oxford University Press, 1983, Auckland, 1983
ISBN 10: 0196479940 ISBN 13: 9780196479941
Seller: BOP Books, Tauranga, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. B/w Illus Map Etc. (illustrator). 1st. Hard Cover. 1st. Large, heavy Book. 28.5cm Deep By 22.5cm. Art DJ is plastic protected, taped to covers. Ex-library, but condition VG, code and marking under plastic cover at spine base. Date due sheet and bar code on FFEP. Inked codes etc top corner title page verso. No other library indications. An account of early French Pacific colonisation as recorded by George Prichard of the London Missionary Society as he sough to protect the Tahiti group's independence in the early 1800s. A fascinating insight into Europeanisation of the Pacific, based on Pritchard's records, published here for the first time.