Trading Nature: Tahitians, Europeans, and Ecological Exchange by Jennifer Newell

Trading Nature: Tahitians, Europeans, and Ecological Exchange

Jennifer Newell

296 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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When Captain Samuel Wallis became the first European to land at Tahiti in June 1767, he left not only a British flag on shore but also three guinea hens, a pair of turkeys, a pregnant cat, and a garden planted with peas for the chiefess Purea. The...

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