Vanessa Smith teaches in the Department of English at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (1998) and co-editor of Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology 1680-1900 (2000) and Islands in History and Representation (2003).
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Introduction: amicable signs Part I. Making Contact: 1. Crowd scenes 2. Receiving strangers 3. Calculated affection 4. Performance anxieties Part II. Particular Friendships: 5. Fellow traveling 6. Ruinous friendships 7. Prizeable companions.
