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...Fatal Impact, Moorehead...
...FATAL IMPACT, by Alan Moorehead. History becomes moral drama in this engrossing study of the effect of the European Enlightenment on the primitive societies of the Pacific...
...FATAL IMPACT, by Alan Moorehead. Writing in the wake of Captain Cook, Bougainville and other great Pacific navigators and explorers, the superbly skilled journalist-historian Alan Moorehead takes soundings of philosophic depth-savage and civilized man in confrontations unresolved to this...
...FATAL IMPACT, by Alan Moorehead. Writing in the wake of Captain Cook, Bougainville and other great Pacific navigators and explorers, the superbly skilled journalist-historian Alan Moorehead takes soundings of philosophic depth-savage and civilized man in confrontations unresolved to this...
Spies who become famous usually find it fatal. Richard Sorge, the shadowy Soviet mastermind of one of the most daring and successful espionage rings in history, was no exception. Although Russia made him a Hero of the Soviet Union, named a Moscow street and a tanker in his honor, and only last year issued a commemorative stamp (4 kopeks) bearing his likeness, Sorge was not around to take bows. The Japanese hanged him in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison...