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Robin Michell

MEMOIRS OF ARII TAIMAI

MEMOIRS OF ARII TAIMAI

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In 1890 Henry Adams – the historian, academic, journalist, and descendent of two US presidents – set out on a tour of the South Pacific. After befriending the family of “the last Queen of Tahiti,” he became inspired to write what is considered to be the first history of the island. Through Adams’ letters, Ray Davis explores the story of the book’s creation.
The book variously titled in its two small self-published editions *Tahiti, Memoirs of Marau Taaroa*, or *Memoirs of Arii Taimai* was a collaboration between the American historian Henry Adams and two Queens of Tahiti: Arii Taimai (positioned as the first-person narrator of the work) and her daughter, Marau Taaroa.
(Includes Cook's map).
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