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The Discovery of Tahiti (1955)

by George Robertson

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fun read of the first visit to Tahiti. I really like how the journalist beats around the bush (pun intended!) as he describes the sexual encounters the crew had with the 'Young Girls' from Tahiti. ( )
  untraveller | Apr 15, 2016 |
Interesting contemporary account of the visit of the first Europeans to Tahiti. ( )
  Only2rs | Feb 19, 2016 |
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Gibbings, RobertIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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'This day', wrote the captain with a pardonable flourish, 'the Right Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty were pleased to Appoint me to the Command of his Majesty's ship Dolphin, lying in Dock at Deptford, where I went and hoisted a Pendant on Board, and began to enter Seamen.'

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1767, 19 June. The Wind at ENE a Moderate Gale and clear weather over-head, but hazy in the horizon all round.
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The Folio Society text (1955) is extracted from the Hakluyt Society edition (1948); reprinted by J. M. Dent, 1973.
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