Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
- Published by: University of Hawaii Press November 1995
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0824817540
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0824817541
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.9 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs: 14.7 ounces
Product Review
'a Deningesque double helix of findings and speculation, past and present, subject and author' --
Christina Thompson, The Age
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
William Gooch died at Waimea on the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian chain. Pahupu, Hawaiian warriors 'cut-in-two' by their tattoos, killed him there. He was only twenty-two. Gooch's is a short life indeed on which to base a book. But Greg Dening uses the incident of his murder as the basis for a penetrating study of historical narrative and meaning. Gooch, the young astronomer on board the Daedalus, is written into history through the perceptions and intentions of the historian. This is 'history's anthropology'. The layers of interpretation and meaning are woven into the fabric of the history itself.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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