books.google.co.uk - Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth-such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Strangers_in_the_South_Seas.html?id=zSpa1Fto4WAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareStrangers in the South Seas