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Hawaiki Rising - Hōkūle‘a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Hawaiki Rising - Hōkūle‘a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Attuned to a world of natural signs—the stars, the winds, the
curl of ocean swells—Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands
of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against
prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to
settle the vast Pacific Ocean. And they did this when Greek
mariners still hugged the coast of an inland sea, and Europe was
populated by stone-age farmers. Yet by the turn of the twentieth
century, this story had been lost and Polynesians had become an
oppressed minority in their own land. Then, in 1975, a replica of
an ancient Hawaiian canoe—Hokule‘a—was launched to sail the
ancient star paths, and help Hawaiians reclaim pride in the
accomplishments of their ancestors. Hawaiki Rising tells this story
in the words of the men and women who created and sailed aboard
Hokule‘a. They speak of growing up at a time when their Hawaiian
culture was in danger of extinction; of their vision of sailing
ancestral sea-routes; and of the heartbreaking loss of Eddie Aikau
in a courageous effort to save his crewmates when Hokule‘a
capsized in a raging storm. We join a young Hawaiian, Nainoa
Thompson, as he rediscovers the ancient star signs that guided his
ancestors, navigates Hokule‘a to Tahiti, and becomes the first
Hawaiian to find distant landfall without charts or instruments in
a thousand years. Hawaiki Rising is the saga of an astonishing
revival of indigenous culture by voyagers who took hold of the old
story and sailed deep into their ancestral past.
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