Voyage Of Rediscovery

Author : Ben Finney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520913051

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In the summer of 1985, a mostly Hawaiian crew set out aboard Hokule'a, a reconstructed ancient double canoe, to demonstrate what skeptics had steadfastly denied: that their ancestors, sailing in such canoes and navigating solely by reading stars, ocean swells, and other natural signs, could intentionally have sailed across the Pacific, exploring the vast oceanic realm of Polynesia and discovering and settling all its inhabitable islands. Their round-trip odyssey from Hawai'i to Aotearoa (New Zealand), across 12,000 nautical miles, dramatically refuted all theories declaring that—because of their unseaworthy canoes and inaccurate navigational methods—the ancient Polynesians could only have been pushed accidentally to their islands by the vagaries of wind and current. Voyage of Rediscovery is a vivid, immensely readable account of this remarkable journey through the Pacific, including tales of a curiosity attack by sperm whales and the crew's welcome to Aotearoa by Maori tribesmen, who dubbed them their sixth tribe. It describes how Hawaiian navigator Nainoa Thompson guided the canoe over thousands of miles of open ocean without compass, sextant, charts, or any other navigational aids. In so doing, it documents the experimental voyaging approach, developed by Ben Finney, which has both transformed our ideas about Polynesian migration and voyaging and been embraced by present-day Polynesians as a way to experience and celebrate their rich ancestral heritage as premier seafarers. By sailing in the wake of their ancestors, the Hawaiians and other Polynesians who captained, navigated, and crewed Hokule'a made the journey described here a cultural as well as a scientific odyssey of exploration.

Author : Ben R. Finney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520080027

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Voyage of Rediscovery by Ben R. Finney Pdf

. By sailing in the wake of their ancestors, the Hawaiians and other Polynesians who captained, navigated, and crewed Hokulea made the long journey described in Voyage of Rediscovery a truly cultural as well as scientific odyssey of exploration into their ancestral past.

Author : Giles Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Canoes and canoeing
ISBN : LCCN:75018072

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Voyage of Rediscovery, 1673-1973 by Giles Clark Pdf

Author : John Krist
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Lewis and Clark Expedition
ISBN : 9780595335916

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Voyage of Rediscovery by John Krist Pdf

More than two centuries ago, President Thomas Jefferson sent a hardy band of explorers on an unparalleled voyage of discovery across uncharted America. Members of the Lewis and Clark expedition were the first U.S. citizens to cross the Continental Divide, the first to reach the Pacific by land, the first to map the landscape that would someday become central to the nation's identity. They also were the last to describe the West before it underwent radical change at the hands of traders, trappers, soldiers and settlers. As the 2003-2006 bicentennial of the expedition approached, veteran journalist John Krist set out to retrace the explorers' path, hoping to answer a few deceptively simple questions. What is it like on the trail today? What was it like 200 years ago? What can we learn about the West, and about the nation itself, by examining it through the unique lens of the explorers' journals and letters? Voyage of Rediscovery interweaves tales from the trail with analysis of some of the most compelling environmental issues facing the region. Mixing adventure, history, science and sorrow, it paints an evocative portrait of the modern American West and the people who call it home.

Author : Eric Midwinter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : 1898576009

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A Voyage of Rediscovery by Eric Midwinter Pdf

Author : Wendy J. Kramer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
ISBN : 0944580424

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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo by Wendy J. Kramer Pdf

Author : Ben R. Finney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015060397091

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Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors by Ben R. Finney Pdf

Author : Kevin George Sambrano
Publisher : Thinkin' Out Loud Productions
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 9780968056707

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Abbotsford Station by Kevin George Sambrano Pdf

Author : K. G. Sambrano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:62913727

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Abbotsford Station by K. G. Sambrano Pdf

Author : Ben R. Finney
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005299545

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Hokuleʻa by Ben R. Finney Pdf

Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824844158

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Pacific Places, Pacific Histories by Brij V. Lal Pdf

Places matter. We are shaped by them, and in turn we shape them physically and imaginatively. They connect us to time and locality, perhaps even to life and death itself. This is a book about places and how our engagement with them--complex, changing, and varied--forms and transforms our understanding of them, of ourselves, of the human condition itself. Pacific Places, Pacific Histories brings together leading Pacific Islands studies scholars and invites them to talk about the places they have inhabited and to contemplate the meaning of that experience. The result is a veritable collage of reflections, distinct and different from each other but moving in their collective impact. Our engagement with places becomes daily more complicated with the transnational movement of peoples, ideas, technologies, and cultures. Global capitalism relentlessly alters established ethnographic assumptions about the meaning and importance of where we are and have been. The essays presented here are about letting go, learning and un-learning, transgressing physical, emotional, and intellectual boundaries. They are about personal quests, narrated in distinctive voices, raising particular concerns. Together they contribute significantly to our understanding of how small islands in a vast ocean enable us to see ourselves and the world around us.

Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0920663869

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Arctic Workhorse by James P. Delgado Pdf

Dodging between the Arctic floes, almost crushed several times, the little RCMP vessel St. Rochwas the first ship to conquer the hazardous Northwest Passage from west to east. Two years later, in 1944, she did it from east to west. Arctic Workhorseis a biography of St. Roch, from her construction in Vancouver in 1928, through her working life and famous voyages, to her resting place at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401141796

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Astronomy Across Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

Astronomy Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Astronomy consists of essays dealing with the astronomical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Polynesian, Egyptian and Tibetan astronomy, among others, the book includes essays on Sky Tales and Why We Tell Them and Astronomy and Prehistory, and Astronomy and Astrology. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate astronomical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Author : Adam Barkman,Ashley Barkman,Nancy Kang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780739178720

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The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott by Adam Barkman,Ashley Barkman,Nancy Kang Pdf

While recognizing Scott's undeniable contributions to contemporary popular cinema, the volume does not shy away from honest and well-evidenced critique. Each chapter's approach correlates with philosophical, literary, or cultural studies perspectives. Using both combined and single-film discussions, the contributors examine such topics as gender roles and feminist theory; philosophical abstractions like ethics, honor, and personal responsibility; historical memory and the challenges of accurately rendering historical events on screen; literary archetypes and generic conventions; race relations and the effect of class difference on character construction; how religion shapes personal and collective values; the role of a constantly changing technological universe; and the schism between individual and group-based power structures.

Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429937733

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A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz Pdf

The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.