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An 8 page critique of Alan
Moorehead’s work “Fatal Impact.” No additional sources cited.
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of Captain Cook and his voyages as well as a study in human interaction and the potentially devastating impact of such human interaction. This work is also considered a classic
in many ways although it is not an exceptionally long work. With these simple facts in hand the following paper examines Mooreheads work and provides a critique of the information
and presentation. The Impact In this work we find ourselves on the deck of the Endeavor and the Resolution during Cooks voyages to the Pacific. In these voyages
we are taken to Tahiti, Australia as well as the Antarctic. But, it is not just a presentation of the voyages, but a presentation of the impact, or consequences, of
the voyages. And, underlying it all is the notion, presented by Cook, that the savage is noble. In his time Cooks voyages and his concerns about the noble savage provided
a great wealth of information for those philosophers who believed that mankind had evolved wrongly and destructively. They argued for the noble savage and the beauty of such a social
simplicity. We see Moorehead indicate that the natives were "happy, healthy, beautiful people whose every want was supplied by the tropical forest, and who, best of all, knew nothing of
the cramping sophostries of civilization" (NA). However, while looking at the noble savage interaction and impact took place. And the material that Moorehead presents seems invaluable in these regards.
He confines his study of Cooks voyages and brings a powerful understanding in relationship to how Tahiti, Australia and Antarctica were all linked in terms of the impact made by
Europeans. They were all areas that were opened up by Cooks voyages, and Moorehead illustrates how this was potentially and ultimately a destructive reality for the areas. Moorehead argues that
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