THE FATAL IMPACT: AN ACCOUNT OF THE INVASION OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1767-1840
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st. 1966
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The late Alan Moorehead evocatively recounts the almost inevitable tragic consequences for the native people and cultures of the South Pacific when Western man "discovered" them, even when the discoverer, Cook, was no conquistador and had come with high hopes of peaceful and productive co-existence. Green cloth boards, gilt title on red title block to spine. B/w photos and illustratilons. xiv and 230 pages including index. Top edge green.
Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and browning to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly edge-rubbed.
Stock no. 1831257
