Trading Nature: Tahitians, Europeans and Ecological Exchange by Jennifer Newell
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0824832817 | 296 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
When Captain Samuel Wallis became the first European to land at Tahiti in June 1767, he left not only a British flag on shore but also three guinea hens, a pair of turkeys, a pregnant cat, and a garden planted with peas for the chiefess Purea.