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Intimate Strangers Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters

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ISBN-10: 0521728789

ISBN-13: 9780521728782

Edition: 2010

Authors: Vanessa Smith

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Encompassing 40 years of encounters between European explorers and the peoples native to the Pacific region, this book investigates the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late 18th-century European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania.
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Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'Amicable signs'
Making contact
Crowd scenes
Receiving strangers
Calculated affection
Performance anxieties
Particular friendships
Fellow travelling
Ruinouns friendships
'Prizeable companions'
Bibliography
Index