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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