On From Pacific Shores
Owen, Gwil and Julia Tanner. From Pacific Shores: 18th Century Ethnographic Collections at Cambridge: The Voyages of Cook, Vancouver and the First Fleet. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1999. pp. 90. Cloth.
Informative sweep of Cambridge’s artifacts from the voyages of Cook, Vancouver, and the First Fleet. This book includes introductions to the the individual voyages, a little information on each geographic areas (as well as general characterizations of the materials they have), and details about a wide range of representative artifacts.
This book certainly is not for everyone, but it serves its purpose of introducing readers to these collections.