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This volume charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed.

Preserving the Self in the South Seas 16801840

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/06/2001
      ISBN13: 9780226468495, 978-0226468495
      ISBN10: 0226468496

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      Book Synopsis
      This volume charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita. Jonathan Lamb introduces us to the writings of South Seas explorers, and finds in them unexpected and poignant tales of selves alarmed and transformed.

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