Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters by Vanessa Smith

Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters

Critical Perspectives on Empire

Vanessa Smith

323 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading th...

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