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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
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- 9780062060884
- Book Title
- Sea People : the Puzzle of Polynesia
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- Anthropology / General, Expeditions & Discoveries, Oceania
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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"Who hasn't stayed up late reading South Sea tales? Christina Thompson's Sea People is a South Sea tale to top them all."--Richard Rhodes, author of Energy: A Human History and the Pulitzer Prize winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb "Magnificent. . . . A grand, symphonic, beautifully written book. . . . Sea People is an archive-researched historical account that has the page-turning qualities of an all-absorbing mystery."--Boston Globe 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.
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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062060880
ISBN-13
9780062060884
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Book Title
Sea People : the Puzzle of Polynesia
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthropology / General, Expeditions & Discoveries, Oceania
Publication Year
2022
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages
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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
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Magnificent... A grand, symphonic, beautifully written book... Sea People is an archive-researched historical account that has the page-turning qualities of an all-absorbing mystery., An inspired history... A beautifully woven narrative... Thompson vividly captures the wondrousness of this region of the world as well as the sense of adventure tied up in that history., Sea People is a rich compendium of the ways Polynesia has been pinned down on the maps of geography, history, and culture through the centuries. As Thompson so eloquently shows, such descriptions are only half of a story., A thorough and page-turning investigation... Part-memoir, part-investigation, part-history book, Sea People is an adventure in itself... It's a compelling read, and one that movingly reminds us that the world is much older and much bigger than we imagine., A Fascinating Answer to an Enormous Puzzle-And Thompson Tells It Beautifully. Essential Reading., An Elegantly Written and Superbly Researched Survey of a Great Geographical and Historical Puzzle., A superb chronicler of the intellectual explorers of Polynesian history, Thompson writes with command and insight, enhancing this fascinating book's rich appeal., Fascinating... The origins of the people of Polynesia, as discussed in this spellbinding history, are sure to captivate armchair travelers and historians alike., Thompson offers not a binary (science vs myth) but a proliferation of knowledge frameworks: linguistics, oral history, computer science, anthropology, navigation, archaeology, etc. Thompson affirms a stance of intellectual appreciation, humility, and wonder., A luminous, beautifully rendered account of Polynesian navigation and exploration, and the lives and knowledge that built and populated an astonishing Oceanian civilization. Thompson captures the remarkable deep history of a world shaped between land and sea., A rewarding chronicle that spans centuries of investigations . . . [Thompson] shows us how we know what we know about the peopling of nearly a quarter of the Earth's surface., Christina Thompson...is perhaps ideally placed to try to answer the question [of Polynesian origins] - and in Sea People, her fascinating and satisfying addition to an already considerable body of Polynesian literature, she succeeds admirably., Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Thompson's account shows how the science of human history, despite occasional wrong turns and dead ends, slowly but steadily advances. A must read for anyone fascinated by the Polynesians or interested in the history of science., The supra theme of Sea People is a vision of knowledge systems intertwined - the outcome of history, cultural tolerance, and a grasp of misunderstandings. Thompson's tone is perfectly tuned for such enlightenment, as is the life-position from which she writes., Sea People teems with compelling insights as it explores the age-old mysteries of Polynesian origins. We don't just visit the turreted cliffs of the Marquesas with Mendaña, the cloud-wrapped peaks of Hawaii with Cook, or the treacherous reefs of Raroia with Heyerdahl. We envision the whole panorama of European exploration and colonization against the even greater grandeur of Polynesian inventiveness, dignity, and self-determination. Thanks to Thompson's vision, we encounter an authentic global mystery that proves as vast and luminous as the Pacific itself., A triumph... Sea People deserves a wide audience, one well beyond those who are from, or conduct research, in the region... Infused with curiosity and respect, Sea People is everything historical nonfiction should be., Artfully written... [Thompson] writes with infectious awe and appreciation about Polynesian culture and with sharp intelligence about the blind spots of those investigating it at different times. This fascinating work could prove to be the standard on the subject for some time to come., I loved this book. I found Sea People the most intelligent, empathic, engaging, wide-ranging, informative, and authoritative treatment of Polynesian mysteries that I have ever read. Christina Thompson's gorgeous writing arises from a deep well of research and succeeds in conjuring a lost world.
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