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Title: We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific by David Lewis, Derek, Sir Oulton ISBN: 0-8248-1582-3 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An academic book by a knowledgable navigator
Comment: This book is written by an academic. I don't necessarily mean this in a negative sense. The author has done a very thorough research on the topic and presented his findings. The effect is a book that can be called a comprehensive treatment as far as it can be done given that the practictioners are disappearing fast.
The downside is that it can send you to sleep as the author systematically compares how the navigational techniques are practiced in the various island groups.
The strength of the book is not only its thoroughness but also the fact that the author is a skilled sailor who has gone on trips using these techniques. This makes the material so much more authentic, because the reader can relate how effective these skills are and yet how much practice they require.
The author provides commentary on many practices and relates them to our modern day knowledge. An example was their ability to recognize the impact of sub surface currents, something that is today a rather specialist piece of knowledge not available to the everyday sailor.
Rating: 5
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Comment: Incredible book - how did people get to Hawaii, Tonga, and other pacific islands that are thousands of miles apart? Did they get lost? Did they get blown there by storms? Nooooooo - they could navigate over open ocean for thousands of miles by using art passed down from generation to generation. This book tells you how.
Rating: 5
Summary: Exellent on Pacific Voyaging
Comment: David Lewis has zig-zaged the Pacific in modern yachts and traditional canoes. His broad experience and long resarch, using his own and many schoolars data, has made this a good analysis and documentation of the extremly impressing and interesting phenomenon of ancient and present voyaging in the Pacific. Others, specially anthropologists fieldworking in the Central Carolines of Micronesia, had written about the presently used Micronesian voyaging system, others less throughly about the forgotten polynesian,but Lewis mangage to give a synthesis of the technologies and some of the social aspects of traditional voyaging in the Pacific
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Title: The Last Navigator by Stephen D. Thomas ISBN: 0070645744 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact by Patrick Vinton Kirch ISBN: 0520234618 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Canoes of Oceania (Special Publications - Bernice P. Bishop Museum; 27-29) by J. Haddon A. C.&Hornell ISBN: 0910240191 Publisher: Bishop Museum Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1975 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings: How to Build and Use 18 Traditional Navigational Instruments by Dennis Fisher ISBN: 0070211205 Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia by Ben R. Finney, Ben Finney ISBN: 0520080025 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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