The Pacific

The Pacific

by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 23/07/2018

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A rich, complex and engaging account of Cook's voyages across the Pacific, from actor and raconteur Sam Neill.


Captain James Cook first set sail to the Pacific in 1768, just over 250 years ago. These vast waters, one third of the earth's surface, were uncharted but not unknown. A rich diversity of people and cultures navigated, traded, lived and fought here for thousands of years. Before Cook, the Pacific was disconnected from the power and ideas of Europe, Asia and America. In the wake of Cook, everything changed.


The Pacific with Sam Neill is the companion book to the Foxtel documentary series of the same name, in which actor and raconteur Sam Neill takes a deeply personal, present-day voyage to map his own understanding of James Cook, Europe's greatest navigator, and the immense Pacific Ocean itself.


Voyaging on a wide variety on vessels, from container ships to fishing trawlers and sailing boats, Sam crosses the length and breadth of the largest ocean in the world to experience for himself a contemporary journey in Cook's footsteps, engaging the past and present in both modern and ancient cultural practice and peoples.


Fascinating, engaging, fresh and vital - this is history ... but not as you know it.

ISBN:
9781460710364
9781460710364
Category:
Biography: historical
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
23-07-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

Meaghan Wilson Anastasios spent her formative years in Melbourne before travelling and working as an archaeologist in the Mediterranean and Middle East.

She holds a PhD in art history and cultural economics, has been a lecturer at the University of Melbourne and was a fine art auctioneer. Meaghan now uses her expertise to write and research for film and TV.

She lives in inner-city Melbourne with her husband and their two children. The Water Diviner was her first novel, which she co-wrote with her husband Andrew. The Honourable Thief is her first solo novel.

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