Legends of the South Seas: The World of the Polynesians Seen Through Their Myths and Legends, Poetry, and Art.

By Antony Alpers

Book Overview

Many Westerners have formed a picture of Polynesia based on the paintings of Gauguin and the fiction of writers like Somerset Maugham and Herman Melville. The land and its people seem to embody many... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0690487738
• ISBN13: 9780690487732
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.