Indigenous Navigation and Voyaging in the Pacific - A Reference Guide

How have Pacific Islanders voyaged across the vast ocean around them and navigated their small crafts from one distant place to another for thousands of years? This reference guide describes the literature on indigenous navigation and voyaging in the Pacific.

The annotated bibliography covers journal articles and books written in several languages, including English, German, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Dutch, pointing to materials of both recent and early origin. The entries are arranged alphabetically by author under Pacific (General), Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia chapters. Indexes to authors, geographic areas, and to subjects provide the reader with easy access to the entries and to a wealth of interesting research on a complex subject with many perplexing questions.

List of contents

Introduction
Pacific, General
Polynesia
Micronesia
Melanesia
Author Index
Geographic Index
Subject Index

About the author

NICHOLAS J. GOETZFRIDT is Associate Professor of Library Science at the University of Guam. His previous publications include Micronesia 1975-1987: A Social Science Bibliography (1989) and Indigenous Navigation and Voyaging in the Pacific: A Reference Guide (1992), both published by Greenwood Press. The latter was selected by Choice for its 1993 Outstanding Academic Book List.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas J. Goetzfridt, Goetzfridt Nicholas J.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.1992
• EAN: 9780313277399
• ISBN: 978-0-313-27739-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 680 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, Geographical discovery & exploration, Geographical discovery and exploration, Pacific Ocean, Bibliographies, catalogues, Geography and World Cultures: Culture