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Pp. xiii, 335; frontispiece plate of the author, 57 black-and-white photo-plates, 4 maps. Publisher’s original wine-red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, front cover with gilt boat, endpaper maps, 8vo. The author served as director of the Bernice B. Bishop Museum in Hawaii. The volume discusses…
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This book was also published under the title Vikings of the Pacific and was written by New Zealand Māori scholar Sir Peter Buck (also known by his Māori name, Te Rangi Hīroa). It was a pioneering work explaining, from an Indigenous perspective, the process through which the islands of Polynesia came to be settled over thousands of years by voyagers traveling in outrigger or double-hulled canoes without navigational instruments.
As an anthropologist whose research has focused on Polynesia and who has always been interested in maritime issues, I was intrigued by the questions this book raised and motivated to explore…
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