附註:Includes bibliographical references (page 52).
Originally a libretto commissioned by the Orpheus Choir of Wellington to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary--Intro.
Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTORY NOTE; ABSOLUTION CHORUS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; WORKS CONSULTED; Copyright
摘要:The book is a highly stylised, 'operatic' account of voyages, with similarities to the musical structure of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner', and opera. As the poem unfolds, European myth (Orpheus, Venus, etc) has to make space for Polynesian myth (Maui, Reinga, etc). In the final pages, Cook is required after his death to face up to the damage his expeditions have inflicted on the indigenous peoples of the Pacific.
