Cover of Aphrodite's island

Aphrodite's island

by Anne Salmond

2009 537 pages eng

Aphrodite's Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status in Western imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of "savages." In this groundbreaking book, Anne Salmond takes readers to the centre of these societies' …

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