Author(s): Andrew Sharp

Te Ao Maori History, Society & Culture | Secondhand

Secondhand. First edition.

Content:

A world perspective -- How did the Polynesians navigate? -- Stone Age vessels in the Pacific -- Voyages of no return -- The voyaging traditions -- Migrants from three kingdoms -- The lonely islands -- Early man in New Zealand -- The Polynesian migration trail.

First published as 'Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific' in 1956 this controversial work is here rewritten to answer the arguments of the author's critics and incorporates later material and deductions. Illustrated.