Sea people : the puzzle of Polynesia / Christina Thompson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062060877
- ISBN: 0062060872
- Physical Description: xvi, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "The quest to understand who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know..."--Jacket. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-348) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: Kealakekua Bay -- The eyewitnesses (1521-1722). A very great sea : the discovery of Oceania ; First contact : Mendana in the Marquesas ; Barely an island at all : atolls of the Tuamotus ; Outer limits : New Zealand and Easter Island -- Connecting the dots (1764-1778). Tahiti : the heart of Polynesia ; A man of knowledge : Cook meets Tupaia ; Tupaia's chart : two ways of seeing ; An aha moment : a Tahitian in New Zealand -- Why not just ask them? (1778-1920). Drowned continents and other theories : the nineteenth-century Pacific ; A world without writing : Polynesian oral traditions ; The Aryan Maori : an unlikely idea ; A viking in Hawai'i : Abraham Fornander ; Voyaging stories : history and myth -- The rise of science (1920-1959). Somatology : the mesure of man ; A Maori anthropologist : Te Rangi Hiroa ; The Moa hunters : stone and bones ; Radiocarbon dating : the question of when ; The Lapita people : a key piece of the puzzle -- Setting sail (1947-1980). Kon-Tiki : Thor Heyerdahl's raft ; Drifting not sailing : Andrew Sharp ; The non-armchair approach : David Lewis experiments ; Hokole'a : sailing to Tahiti ; Reinventing navigation : Nainoa Thompson -- What we know now (1990-2018). The latest science : DNA and dates ; Coda : two ways of knowing. |
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Subject: | Polynesians > History. Navigation > Polynesia > History. Polynesians > Migrations. Polynesia > Discovery and exploration. Oceania > Discovery and exploration. |
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Cape Girardeau Public Library | 996 THO (Text) | 33042004607506 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Northwest | 305.8994 THOMPSON (Text) | 30051020227929 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Windsor | 305.8994 THOMPSON (Text) | 30065010100912 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Morgan County Library | 996 THO (Text) | 35319000141716 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
North Kansas City Public Library | 305.8994 THOMPSON 2019 (Text) | 0001002210910 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Union | 305.8994 THO (Text) | 3006725727 | NonFiction | Available | - |
Trails Regional-Knob Noster | 305.89 THO (Text) | 2204865931 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
West Plains Public Library | 305.89 THO (Text) | 38268201147377 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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