Pathway of the birds
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Pathway of the birds: The vogaging achievements of Māori and their Polynesian ancestors – By Andrew Crowe
Explores a neglected epoch of world history, one that saw Polynesians expand their territory across the world’s largest ocean. In one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory, Polynesians reached and settled nearly every archipelago scattered across some 28 million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean an area now known as East Polynesia.
Through a fascinating synthesis of diverse research and viewpoints, detailed maps and diagrams, and over 350 photographs, Andrew Crowe conveys some of the skills, innovation, resourcefulness and courage of the people that drove this extraordinary feat of maritime exploration.
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Andrew Crowe has produced a masterful synthesis of the remarkable voyaging history of the Polynesians. Prof Patrick V. Kirch, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley. This book casts light on a neglected epoch of world history, one that saw Polynesians expand their territory across the world’s largest ocean.
Author Andrew Crowe has been collecting the research of a wide range of specialists for many years, assembling it as if the individual findings were pieces of one enormous jigsaw. From this broad focus has come a deep admiration for the skills, resourcefulness and courage of the people that drove this extraordinary feat of maritime exploration. Winner of the New Zealand Heritage Book Award for Non-Fiction (2019).
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