The Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific, 1767-1840
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Overview: When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769 it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence.
Seventy years later firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled before them, and what Satan had sown the Protestant missionaries reaped: the Tahitians, who had ‘no God but Love’, came to accept the morality of an English suburb; the Australian Aborigines were ousted from their fertile valleys by convict settlements; and in Antarctica the prolific wildlife was jostled towards extinction by merchants and hunters.
In this book Alan Moorehead tells the tragic story of a great adventure which turned sour, in which good intentions led to disaster, corruption and annihilation. And ironically it was Cook, the greatest and most humane explorer of his day, who was to cause the fatal impact.
The Fatal Impact was first published in 1966. This new edition has been enhanced by the inclusion of approximately 150 paintings, drawings and etchings which bring to life the events, people and places written about so vividly by Moorehead in this tragic story of a great adventurer.
The additional boxed information and captions have been written by the historian Ann Moyal, whose broad knowledge has added further insights to the colourful text.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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