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Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific

Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific

Evans, Julian

Paperback

Australia & OceaniaTravel GeneralTravel Writing

ISBN10: 1780600534
ISBN13: 9781780600536
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Published: Mar 24 2026
Pages: 275
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

With the potent myths of the Pacific Ocean in mind, Julian Evans journeys ever deeper into a world of gin-clear lagoons, palms and sand, in search of both remnants of the fabulous kingdoms of the nineteenth-century European imagination - fed by an abundance of fruits, fish and guilt-free sex - and their twentieth century reality. Ever since Captain Cook first went to Tahiti in 1769 to observe the transit of Venus across the sun, the Pacific has offered this promise of Paradise, shadowed by a darker underbelly. With humour and honesty, Evans uncovers the modern reality: a brave new ocean where the islanders have money and booze, military coups and cold-war politics, atomic explosions and rising sea levels, but where, in the remotest atolls, beyond all our modernity and rationality, the old dreams continue to assert themselves.

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