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A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief - The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i (Paperback)
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A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief - The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i (Paperback)
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Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to
the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton
Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this
fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand
years ago. Combining more than four decades of his own research
with Native Hawaiian oral traditions and the evidence of
archaeology, Kirch puts a human face on the gradual rise to power
of the Hawaiian god-kings, who by the late eighteenth century were
locked in a series of wars for ultimate control of the entire
archipelago. This lively, accessible chronicle works back from
Captain James Cook's encounter with the pristine kingdom in 1778,
when the British explorers encountered an island civilization
governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people.
Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive
archaeological investigations into the broader historical
narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i
adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive
agricultural systems.
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