Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti by Anne Salmond

Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti

Anne Salmond

544 pages 2009

3 editions

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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 th...

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