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The Fatal Impact by Alan Moorehead (Paperback, 2000)

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Author : Moorehead, Alan. The Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 (Penguin Classic History S.). Dust cover is intact and pages are clean and not marred by notes. Item may contain remainder marks on outside edges.

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When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled before them, and where satan had sown. the protestant missionaries reaped. In this work, Alan Moorehead tells the tragic story of a great adventure which turned sour, in which good intentions led to disaster, corruption and annihilation. And ironically it was Cook, the greatest and most humane explorer of his day, who was to cause the fatal impact.