The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific by Gananath Obeyesekere

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific

Gananath Obeyesekere

336 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, ...

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