Fixing the Bounds. "The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas" by Anne Salmond. [review]
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2003-10
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Frost, Alan
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Australian Book Review
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Abstract
Anne Salmond has been assiduous in searching the records, archival as well as published; and her knowledge of Maori history and ethnography allows her to write authoritatively about culture contact. There are some very good aspects to this book; nonetheless, it is not altogether successful, faltering in editorial matters large and small, and in organisational ones. Readers will learn much from this work. However, with more time spent on it and with the benefit of rigorous editorial advice, it might have been a really distinctive study, rather than one with some distinctive aspects.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, colonization
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Frost, Alan 2003. Fixing the Bounds. Review of "The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas" by Anne Salmond. 'Australian Book Review', No 255, October, 12-13.