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Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and Their Polynesian Ancestors

Andrew Crowe

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Description:Winner of New Zealand Heritage Book Award 2019Winner of two Ka Palapala Po'okela Awards 2019Storylines Notable Book Award 2019Top Ten Non-Fiction for 2018 - Auckland LibrariesTop Reads of 2018 - Weekend HeraldBest of 2019 - Radio New Zealand National: It is absolutely one of the best books I have ever read. A highly readable and lucid account of the early Polynesians' epic saga... will appeal to both the general reader and the specialist - New Zealand Listener Succeeds in bridging the gap between academic researchers and the general audience - Journal of the Polynesian Society A veritable mine of information about the environments and resources of ancient Polynesia. It stands as an excellent addition to earlier books on Polynesian navigation by authors such as David Lewis and Geoffrey Irwin - Journal of Anthropological Research The book is very well written and illustrated, and is comprehensively referenced... I highly recommend [it] for its readability and presentation while offering an informed account of how Polynesians in double-hulled canoes voyaged over vast distances of the Pacific Ocean from small island to small island, carrying with them the materials required for successful settlement - International Journal of Maritime History In this book, natural history writer Andrew Crowe elaborates.on how Polynesian navigators - in one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory - managed to find and re-find incredibly small and/or remote targets scattered across the Pacific. As Hawaiian master navigator Nainoa Thompson explains: 'Everything you need to navigate is in nature. The question is, can you see it?' For further details - including awards, interviews, podcasts, reviews, commendations - go to: https://authors.org.nz/author/andrewc...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and Their Polynesian Ancestors. To get started finding Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and Their Polynesian Ancestors, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 288

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: David Bateman Ltd

Release: 2018

ISBN: 1869539613

Description: Winner of New Zealand Heritage Book Award 2019Winner of two Ka Palapala Po'okela Awards 2019Storylines Notable Book Award 2019Top Ten Non-Fiction for 2018 - Auckland LibrariesTop Reads of 2018 - Weekend HeraldBest of 2019 - Radio New Zealand National: It is absolutely one of the best books I have ever read. A highly readable and lucid account of the early Polynesians' epic saga... will appeal to both the general reader and the specialist - New Zealand Listener Succeeds in bridging the gap between academic researchers and the general audience - Journal of the Polynesian Society A veritable mine of information about the environments and resources of ancient Polynesia. It stands as an excellent addition to earlier books on Polynesian navigation by authors such as David Lewis and Geoffrey Irwin - Journal of Anthropological Research The book is very well written and illustrated, and is comprehensively referenced... I highly recommend [it] for its readability and presentation while offering an informed account of how Polynesians in double-hulled canoes voyaged over vast distances of the Pacific Ocean from small island to small island, carrying with them the materials required for successful settlement - International Journal of Maritime History In this book, natural history writer Andrew Crowe elaborates.on how Polynesian navigators - in one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory - managed to find and re-find incredibly small and/or remote targets scattered across the Pacific. As Hawaiian master navigator Nainoa Thompson explains: 'Everything you need to navigate is in nature. The question is, can you see it?' For further details - including awards, interviews, podcasts, reviews, commendations - go to: https://authors.org.nz/author/andrewc...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and Their Polynesian Ancestors. To get started finding Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and Their Polynesian Ancestors, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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