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Captain Cook in the Underworld - Sullivan, Robert
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This long poem by Maori poet, Robert Sullivan, reinterprets the Orpheus myth for the South Pacific and looks at the exploratory voyages of Captain Cook in a new light. The book is a highly stylised, operatic account of the voyages. As the poem unfolds, European myth makes way for Polynesian myth.

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Captain Cook in the Underworld 2003, Auckland University Press, Auckland

ISBN-13: 9781869402815

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