Transcultural Space And Transcultural Beings

This book is about first contacts—intercultural spaces invaded and transgressed upon by explorers, both real and fictional.

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A puffing smoking sea monster suddenly appears near the shoreline of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal in the eighteenth century, and a group of natives out fishing "appeared all at once to be struck dumb, their wondering gaze fixed in one direction, and on the sole object." This particular sea monster was the British steam vessel Pluto