The Story of the Pacific: Bilingual Chinese-English Edition

Author: (American) A. de Saint-Exupéry
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Who was the first to sail among the numerous islands in the Pacific? Were the famous navigators like Magellan and Cook? No, compared to the anonymous Polynesian explorers, they were merely incompetent outsiders. In this book, the author narrates the history of discovering the Pacific from a new perspective: from the Panama isthmus to the quiet Darién Gap, from the earliest Polynesian discovery of the Pacific to the voyages of Magellan and others, from the fervor of New World exploration to the massive fraud that led to the bankruptcy of tens of thousands of Europeans, from the wonders of Easter Island to the real-life story of the protagonist who inspired Robinson Crusoe. The concise and elegant English, paired with a faithful and fluid Chinese translation, complemented by illustrations drawn by the author himself, will bring you endless joy in reading.