Moorehead, Alan       <br/><br/>
The fatal impact:   An account of the invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 
by Alan Moorehead 
 - New York  Harper & Row, Publishers  1966 
 - 230 pages  
<br/><br/> Includes Index 
<br/><br/> Landfall -- Venus observed -- Noble Savage -- Familiarity -- Arcady reformed -- Nevermore -- Bontany Bay -- Australia observed -- Aborigines -- Settlement -- Spreading out -- Acclimatization -- Resolution -- Bloodstained ice. 
<br/><br/> Story of social and economic corruption that followed the visits of Captain Cook and other explorers who voyaged to Tahiti, Australia and the Antarctic. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Cook, James 1728-1779 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) --Discovery and exploration<br/>Australia -- Discovery and exploration
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>910.4 Moo   15