Pacific Passages - Travelling the South Seas

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  • Author: Hans-Christof Wächter
  • Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd
  • Catalogue: 167993
  • Size: 17x13cm
In “Pacific Passages - Travelling the South Seas” travel writer Hans-Christof Wächter sails to Vanuatu, Ovalau, Fiji, Rarotonga and the Cook Islands looking to find the real rhythms of the lives of the islands and their inhabitants and discovers that the South Sea islands were never what the Europeans imagined them to be.

The first Europeans to catch sight of the islands of the South Seas thought that they had chanced upon paradise, and the tales they told on returning to their homes encouraged all other Europeans to idealise the islands as a tropical Arcadia.

The truth was very different and the apparent idyll of the South Sea islanders was shattered by the fatal impact of European discovery.