Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors
Subtitle: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: August 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780824832131
Subjects: Emigration & Immigration; Maritime History; Oceania; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science; History - General History; Discovery and exploration; Migrations; Navigation; Pacific Ocean; Polynesia; Polynesians; Sociology
Description: "The most comprehensive and complete account yet of those ancient seafarers who developed the world's first ocean-going vessels - and the advanced navigational systems to guide them - and discovered the last habitable lands on earth, the islands of the mighty Pacific Ocean."--P. [4] of cover.