Fine Women
Neil Rennie, 6 July 1989
The Pacific since Magellan. Vol. III: Paradise Found and Lost
by O.H.K. Spate.
Routledge, 410 pp., £40, January 1989,0 415 02565 6 Show More
by O.H.K. Spate.
Routledge, 410 pp., £40, January 1989,
Captain Bligh: The Man and his Mutinies
by Gavin Kennedy.
Duckworth, 321 pp., £14.95, April 1989,0 7156 2231 5 Show More
by Gavin Kennedy.
Duckworth, 321 pp., £14.95, April 1989,
The Sublime Savage: James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian
by Fiona Stafford.
Edinburgh, 208 pp., £22.50, November 1988,0 85224 569 6 Show More
by Fiona Stafford.
Edinburgh, 208 pp., £22.50, November 1988,
“... and then lost. Such, in outline, is the story implicit in the third and final volume of O.H.K. Spate’s voyage through the history of The Pacific since Magellan. The narrative closes at the end of the 18th century, although his account of economic activity runs into the first quarter of the 19th. The book opens with an assessment of the controversial ... ”
