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Author : J. E. Weckler (Jr)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Pacific Area
ISBN : OCLC:444956509
Author : Joseph Edwin Weckler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015033921977
Author : J E (Joseph Edwin) 1906- Weckler
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013935535
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Peter Henry Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : UCSC:32106000759677
Author : Christina Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062060891
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For 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 colonize 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 combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. Sea People includes an 8-page photo insert, illustrations throughout, and 2 endpaper maps.
Author : Geoffrey Irwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521476518
The exploration and colonisation of the Pacific is a remarkable episode of human prehistory. Early sea-going explorers had no prior knowledge of Pacific geography, no documents to record their route, no metal, no instruments for measuring time and none for exploration. Forty years of modern archaeology, experimental voyages in rafts, and computer simulations of voyages have produced an enormous range of literature on this controversial and mysterious subject. This book represents a major advance in knowledge of the settlement of the Pacific by suggesting that exploration was rapid and purposeful, undertaken systematically, and that navigation methods progressively improved. Using an innovative model to establish a detailed theory of navigation, Geoffrey Irwin claims that rather than sailing randomly downwind in search of the unknown, Pacific Islanders expanded settlement by the cautious strategy of exploring upwind, so as to ease their safe return. The author has tested this hypothesis against the chronological data from archaeological investigation, with a computer simulation of demographic and exploration patterns and by sailing throughout the region himself.
Author : Jeff Evans,Damon Ieremia Salesa,Elspeth Alix Batt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
ISBN : 0478422229
"The first article recounts a recent voyage from New Zealand to Rapanui and back using traditional navigation methods. The second article provides background information about Polynesian travels, from the earliest migrations from Hawaiki to modern-day air travel between Pacific islands and other countries"--Publisher information.
Author : Andrew Sharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Oceania
ISBN : UCSD:31822033756974
Author : Peter Henry Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Explorers
ISBN : LCCN:41000496
Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541620056
An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake.
Author : Edwin N. Ferdon
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816534777
For thirty years before the coming of the European missionaries, European explorers were able to observe Tahitian society as it had existed for centuries. Now Edwin Ferdon, Polynesian archaeologist and veteran of Thor Heyerdah's expedition to Easter Island, has interwoven their records to show us in fascinating detail what that society was like.
Author : Adrienne L. Kaeppler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191539992
The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface. Comprising thousands of islands and hundreds of cultural groups, Polynesia and Micronesia cover a large part of this vast ocean, from the dramatic mountains of Hawaii to the small, flat coral islands of Kiribati. Including both traditional and contemporary arts, this book introduces the rich artistic traditions of these two regions, traditions that have had a considerable impact on western art in the twentieth century through the influence of artists such as Gauguin. Instead of looking at Polynesia and Micronesia separately, the book focuses on the artistic types, styles, and concepts that they share, placing each in its wider cultural context. From the textiles of Tonga to the canoes of Tahiti, Adrienne Kaeppler looks at religious and sacred rituals and objects, carving, architecture, tattooing, personal ornaments, basket-making, clothing, textiles, fashion, the oral arts, dance, music and musical instruments - even canoe-construction - to provide the ultimate introduction to the rich and vibrant artistic cultures of the Polynesian and Micronesian islands.
Author : Andrew Sharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000012695
Author : Edwin N. Ferdon
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816531691
Ethnographic observations and experiences on the Tongan Islands up to 1810—just prior to intensive Christian missionary activities—provide an early historic baseline of culture for those interested in alter culture change in Tonga, the only Polynesian island group that has never been ruled by outsiders. Ferdon has drawn on a variety of records to provide a well-documented and highly readable account of major aspects of Tongan life—material culture, government, food and drink, recreation, customs, trade, and warfare—at the time when European influences were only beginning to modify traditional island patterns. The ethnohistorical approach to early Tongan culture offers not only a fascinating glimpse into a world long past but also a basis for the comparative study of European acculturation throughout Polynesia. Edwin N. Ferdon first became interested in early Polynesia while serving as an archaeologist with Thor Heyerdahl’s 1955 expedition to Easter Island. He is also the author of Early Tahiti As the Explorers Saw It, 1767–1797.
Author : Geoffrey Malcolm Badger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Explorers
ISBN : UCSD:31822023767668
A thoroughly researched historical account of the hazards and adventures explorers faced while sailing the Pacific Ocean.