Hawaiki Rising: Haokaulea, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance - Paperback
by Sam Low
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Hawaii PressISBN-13:9780824875244ISBN-10:824875249UPC:9780824875244Book Category:History, Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Oceania, Adventurers & Explorers, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCS27YA3EX
Hawaiki Rising: Haokaulea, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance
Attuned to a world of natural signs--the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells--Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to settle the vast Pacific Ocean. And they did this when Greek mariners still hugged the coast of an inland sea, and Europe was populated by...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Hawaii PressISBN-13:9780824875244ISBN-10:824875249UPC:9780824875244Book Category:History, Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Oceania, Adventurers & Explorers, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCS27YA3EX
Sam Low served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific from 1964 to 1966 and earned a PhD in anthropology from Harvard in 1975. He produced the award-winning film, The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific, and is the author of many articles on the canoe, and her meaning to Polynesians. He has sailed aboard Hōkūle'a on three voyages, from 1999 to 2007.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
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