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Sea people : the puzzle of Polynesia / Christina Thompson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher: New York, NY : Harper Audio, [2019]Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 9 audio discs (11 3/4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • spoken word
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
ISBN:
  • 9780062897589
  • 0062897586
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Read by Susan Lyons.Summary: For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. Here, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of those of the many others who have puzzled over this history for 300 years.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Audiobook Adult Audiobook Dr. James Carlson Library Audiobook 305.8994 T469 Available 33111009498797
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Read by Susan Lyons.

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For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? This conundrum, which came to be known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins, emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind. For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. Here, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors, as well as those of those of the many others who have puzzled over this history for 300 years.

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