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Sea People

- In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific
Af: Christina Thompson Engelsk Paperback

Sea People

- In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific
Af: Christina Thompson Engelsk Paperback
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Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier''s History Awards for general history‘Wonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan‘Succeeds in conjuring a lost world’ Dava Sobel, author of LongitudeFor more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history.How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonise these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind.For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People is a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world.
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Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier''s History Awards for general history‘Wonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan‘Succeeds in conjuring a lost world’ Dava Sobel, author of LongitudeFor more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history.How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonise these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind.For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People is a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 384
ISBN-13: 9780008339050
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0008339058
Kategori: Polynesia
Udg. Dato: 5 mar 2020
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 198mm
Højde: 129mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato: 5 mar 2020
Forfatter(e): Christina Thompson
Forfatter(e) Christina Thompson


Kategori Polynesia


ISBN-13 9780008339050


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 384


Udgave


Længde 27mm


Bredde 198mm


Højde 129mm


Udg. Dato 5 mar 2020


Oplagsdato 5 mar 2020


Forlag HarperCollins Publishers