Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and Their Polynesian Ancestors
(By Andrew Crowe)
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Winner of two Ka Palapala Po'okela Awards 2019
Storylines Notable Book Award 2019
Top Ten Non-Fiction for 2018 - Auckland Libraries
Top Reads of 2018 - Weekend Herald
Best of 2019 - Radio New Zealand National: It is absolutely one of the best books I have ever read.
A highly readable and lucid account of the early Polynesians' epic saga... will appeal to both the general reader and the specialist - New Zealand Listener
Succeeds in bridging the gap between academic researchers and the general audience - Journal of the Polynesian Society
A veritable mine of information about the environments and resources of ancient Polynesia. It stands as an excellent addition to earlier books on Polynesian navigation by authors such as David Lewis and Geoffrey Irwin - Journal of Anthropological Research
The book is very well written and illustrated, and is comprehensively referenced... I highly recommend [it] for its readability and presentation while offering an informed account of how Polynesians in double-hulled canoes voyaged over vast distances of the Pacific Ocean from small island to small island, carrying with them the materials required for successful settlement - International Journal of Maritime History
In this book, natural history writer Andrew Crowe elaborates.on how Polynesian navigators - in one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory - managed to find and re-find incredibly small and/or remote targets scattered across the Pacific. As Hawaiian master navigator Nainoa Thompson explains: 'Everything you need to navigate is in nature. The question is, can you see it?'
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