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Navigators Quest For A Kingdom In Polynesia

Author : Fata Ariu Levi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954076037
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Navigators Quest For A Kingdom In Polynesia written by Fata Ariu Levi and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mystery migration across the East Pacific; a story that traverses science, history and mythology; a tale that awakens the spirit of adventure and reveals a search for freedom and a homeland! Written by an Orator Chief and native Samoan, a patient teacher of the Island Nation's history, culture, genealogy, religious rituals, and language, with a passion for research, this book builds on a plethora of scientific studies from the last 250 years, from the day Ferdinand Magellan first discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1519. Postulating the origin of the Polynesian migration has been a conundrum compounded by the fragmentation of the studies undertaken. But author and Orator Fata Ariu Levi coalesces the results and connects the dots of diverse studies to weave a complex tapestry and reveal the ocean floor's multi-colored mosaic of the Navigators' cultural development, history, language and ethnicity. Follow a Polynesian migration; out of Africa, out of the Levant, out of the Pontic-Caspian steppe, out of the Eurasian steppe, out of India, out of mainland China, out of the Asiatic Archipelago, out of the Malay archipelago, out of the Indonesian archipelago, crossing the Wallace Line into the Bismarck Archipelago, and on to East Pacific Ocean. Explore the physical sciences: anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, Pacific Ocean geology, the ecosystem of Southeast Asia and more. Add the social sciences: cultural functionalism and structuralism, social organization. Follow ethnological studies of the Navigators'-Samoans' and Manu'ans'-cultural, economic, heath, and well-being in isolation dating back to the Neolithic period. Discover one of the oldest languages in the world, and see how language morphology, phonology, particle verbs, and sentence structures reveal the path of Polynesian, Proto-Austronesian, Proto-Indo-European, and even Sanskrit languages-languages of the RigVedas, and of the Dravidians-agglutinative as opposed to inflectional. Then look at the wonders of DNA sequencing of the Samoan genome-mtDNA revealing a matrilineal family and social structure, Y-chromosome markers revealing the Samoan chieftain structure for leadership and management development. Orators are the poets of the Polynesian Navigators, delivering messages from ancient ancestors. They are custodians of culture and the operational management of the family organization. And Chiefs are the master storytellers of the culture's mythology, legends, folklore, and family genealogy. And the myths reveal the history. With the guidance of Orator Chief, Fata Ariu Levi, discover the timeline of the Polynesian Navigators' migration, with waves of voyages following that first migration out of Africa around 60,000 years ago-journeys into the Asiatic Archipelago, Indonesia, and the Malay archipelago before the last Glacial Maximum, when the Sahul Shelf was part of Australian continent. Learn how the Austronesian-speaking people were an amalgamation of migrants into the Asiatic Archipelago. Meet the Seafaring population of the coastal line from Taiwan to Madagascar off the coast of East Africa. And follow the Navigators to Polynesia. It is the land of Mythology.

Sea People

Author : Christina Thompson
Publisher : William Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008339050
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Sea People written by Christina Thompson and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan 'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude 'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World 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 colonise 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 is a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. s find and colonise 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 is a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world.

Sea People

Author : Christina Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062060899
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Sea People written by Christina Thompson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Navigator

Author : Morris West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525256448
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book The Navigator written by Morris West and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Son of a Norwegian master-mariner and grandson of Kaloni, the last of the great Polynesian navigators, Gunnar Thorkild is a man consumed by a dream. Convinced that the Polynesians' legendary Island of the Dead is real, he risks his career, his life-and those of his fellow adventurers-to find it. Shipwrecked on the very island they seek, the castaways are forced to leave behind everything they know and rely upon. To survive in this lush tropical paradise, they must make new laws of power and property, of sex and marriage. The Navigator is a gripping tale of sea lore, shipwreck and moral courage. This is a great read and . . . will make you think.' Amazon review Hypnotic from start to finish. Chicago Sun-Times"

We, the Navigators

Author : David Lewis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824815820
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book We, the Navigators written by David Lewis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean.

We, the Navigators

Author : David Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780589007416
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book We, the Navigators written by David Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient art of landfinding in the Pacific.

Polynesia: or an historical account of the principal Islands in the South-Sea, including New Zealand

Author : Mich Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Polynesia: or an historical account of the principal Islands in the South-Sea, including New Zealand by : Mich Russell

Download or read book Polynesia: or an historical account of the principal Islands in the South-Sea, including New Zealand written by Mich Russell and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tupaia

Author : Joan Druett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369304964
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Tupaia written by Joan Druett and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-13 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian navigator. Winner of NZ Post 2012 Best General Non - fiction Book Award. Tupaia, lauded by Europeans as 'an extraordinary genius', sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and interceded with Maori in NZ. Tupaia, a gifted linguist, a brilliant orator, and a most devious politician, could aptly be called the Machiavelli of Tahiti. Being highly skilled in astronomy, navigation, and meteorology, and an expert in the geography of the Pacific, he was able to name directional stars and predict landfalls and weather throughout the voyage from Tahiti to Java. Though he had no previous knowledge of writing or mapmaking, Tupaia drew a chart of the Pacific that encompassed every major group in Polynesia and extended more than 4,000 kilometres from the Marquesas to Rotuma and Fiji. He was also the ship's translator, able to communicate with all the Polynesian people they met. As a man of high social ranking, Tupaia performed as an able intermediary, interpreting local rituals and ceremonies. Joseph Banks is famous for his detailed, perceptive descriptions of the manners and customs of the Polynesian people. Much of the credit for this belongs to Tupaia. Not only did Tupaia become one of the ship's important artists, drawing lively pictures to illustrate what he described, but he could justly be called the Pacific's first anthropologist. Despite all this, Tupaia has never been part of the popular Captain Cook legend. This is largely because he died of complications from scurvy seven months before the ship arrived home. Once he was gone, his accomplishments were easily forgotten - indeed, by removing Tupaia from the story, what the Europeans had achieved seemed all the greater. This fascinating, handsome book also won the 2012 PANZ Book Design Award for best cover.

Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand

Author : Jeff Evans
Publisher : Oratia Media Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1877514152
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand written by Jeff Evans and published by Oratia Media Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science and stories behind the remarkable Polynesian settlement of the South Pacific and finally New Zealand, with plentiful illustrations and maps

Americans in Polynesia, 1783-1842

Author : Wallace Patrick Strauss
Publisher : East Lansing : ichigan State University Press, 1963 [i.e.1964]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Americans in Polynesia, 1783-1842 written by Wallace Patrick Strauss and published by East Lansing : ichigan State University Press, 1963 [i.e.1964]. This book was released on 1964 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the first American traders, explorers and missionaries to visit the Polynesian islands.

Tahiti Nui

Author : Colin W. Newbury
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824880323
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Tahiti Nui written by Colin W. Newbury and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahiti Nui is an account of the survival of a Polynesian society in the face of successive settlements of missionaries, traders, and administrators. Beginning with the first explorers and Captain Cook's scientific observations at Point Venus, Dr. Newbury has separated the various strands interwoven in the fabric of Tahitian society, tracing their development and showing how they interacted at successive stages. Missionaries and foreign traders, administrators and Polynesians, planters and immigrant Chinese have all contributed to the distinctive flavor of French Polynesia, with Tahiti and Tahitians becoming increasingly dominant, not just as the focus of the French administration in Pape'ete, but in the social networks and trading patterns that have evolved.

Rulers of Paradise

Author : Nicky Verra
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494434274
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Rulers of Paradise written by Nicky Verra and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kingdom of Tahiti was one of the most important Polynesian kingdoms until her demise under France's Republican system. Ruled by the Pomare dynasty, the five monarchs of Tahiti were the most important rulers in the central pacific and one of three internationally important Oceanic monarchies along with Hawaii and Tonga. Their rule over Tahiti saw many important changes and transformations as well as increasingly important relations with both France and Britain. From Tahiti the French would eventually go on to unify The Society Islands, Tuamotus, Marquesas, Australs and Gambiers into one polity: French Polynesia. Without the rule of the Pomare's this would have proved impossible.

Revealing the Tuʻi Tonga Empire

Author : Arthur Upton
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Revealing the Tuʻi Tonga Empire written by Arthur Upton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revealing the Tuʻi Tonga Empire: Polynesia's Ancient Mariners" is an enthralling special report by renowned historian Arthur Upton. It invites readers on an exhilarating journey back in time to the Polynesian islands where the historic Tu'I Tonga Empire once reigned supreme. Brimming with exciting archaeological discoveries, ancient navigational wisdom, and revelations about a powerful societal structure, this report promises an engaging exploration of Polynesia's preeminent civilization. This is not just a showcase of historical findings. Imagine feeling the salty sea breeze on your face as you immerse yourself in the world of ancient mariners skillfully maneuvering their canoes through vast ocean expanse. Picture yourself in the heat of a dynamic and sophisticated society that developed intricate political and cultural systems long before European contact. The Dawn of Polynesia's Ancient Mariners: Unveiling the Tuʻi Tonga Empire Boats Beneath the Stars: Stellar Navigation in Ancient Polynesia The Power Seat: Exploring the Tuʻi Tonga's Hierarchical Society ...and seven more intriguing chapters! Offering a fresh perspective on Polynesia's past, Upton masterfully blends rigorous research with compelling storytelling. "Revealing the Tuʻi Tonga Empire: Polynesia's Ancient Mariners" is a captivating expedition to a vibrant era in human history. It is an imperative read for history enthusiasts, cultural explorers, and anyone fascinated by the enduring allure of past civilizations and their prowess at sea.

The Voyaging Stars

Author : David Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393032260
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book The Voyaging Stars written by David Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Legends and Myths of Hawaii

Author : David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Legends and Myths of Hawaii written by David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Navigator

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The Navigator written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

First Contacts in Polynesia - the Samoan Case (1722-1848)

Author : Serge Tcherkezoff
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921536020
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book First Contacts in Polynesia - the Samoan Case (1722-1848) written by Serge Tcherkezoff and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the first encounters between Samoans and Europeans up to the arrival of the missionaries, using all available sources for the years 1722 to the 1830s, paying special attention to the first encounter on land with the Laperouse expedition. Many of the sources used are French, and some of difficult accessibility, and thus they have not previously been thoroughly examined by historians. Adding some Polynesian comparisons from beyond Samoa, and reconsidering the so-called 'Sahlins-Obeyesekere debate' about the fate of Captain Cook, 'First Contacts' in Polynesia advances a hypothesis about the contemporary interpretations made by the Polynesians of the nature of the Europeans, and about the actions that the Polynesians devised for this encounter: wrapping Europeans up in 'cloth' and presenting 'young girls' for 'sexual contact'. It also discusses how we can go back two centuries and attempt to reconstitute, even if only partially, the point of view of those who had to discover for themselves these Europeans whom they call 'Papalagi'. The book also contributes an additional dimension to the much-touted 'Mead-Freeman debate' which bears on the rules and values regulating adolescent sexuality in 'Samoan culture'. Scholars have long considered the pre-missionary times as a period in which freedom in sexuality for adolescents predominated. It appears now that this erroneous view emerged from a deep misinterpretation of Laperouse's and Dumont d'Urville's narratives.