Voyage of Rediscovery - A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia

"A work of great importance that will become a standard study to be looked at, and referred to, in connection with any serious scholarship in its field."—Norman Thrower, editor, The Buccaneer's Atlas

List of contents

Figures
Preface

1 Without Ships or Compass
2 Experimental Voyaging
3 Cultural Revival
4 More than Halfway Around the World
5 Wait for the West Wind
6 Voyage to Aotearoa
7 Sailing Back and Forth Between Hawai'i and Tahiti
8 Putting Voyaging Back into Polynesian Prehistory
9 The Family of the Canoe

Appendixes
About the Drawings
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Ben Finney is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i. He is also co-editor of Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience (California, 1985) and the author of Hokule'a: The Way to Tahiti (1979).

Summary

This is an account of the voyage of a mostly Hawaiian crew, in a reconstructed ancient double canoe, from Hawaii to New Zealand. They did this without the aid of navigational equipment, and with the aim of proving that their ancestors had done just the same thousands of years earlier.

Product details

• Authors: Marlene Among, Chad Babayan, Tai Crouch, Ben Finney, Ben R. Finney, Ben R. Among Finney, Finney Ben, Paul Frost
• Assisted by: Richard Rhodes (Illustration), Marlene Among (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.1994
• EAN: 9780520080027
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08002-7
• No. of pages: 401
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, Geographical discovery & exploration, Polynesia, Geographical discovery and exploration