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The Voyaging Achievements of Maori and their Polynesian Ancestors.
AWARDS AND COMMENDATIONS
- Winner of New Zealand Heritage Book Award 2019
- 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 HeraldCongratulations Andrew. What a fantastic achievement.The Voyaging Achievements of Maori and their Polynesian Ancestors.Pathway of the Birds explores a neglected epoch of world history, one that saw Polynesians expand their territory across the world’s largest ocean in one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory.
Were Polynesians adept at navigating return voyages or had they settled the Pacific in a more random fashion? In an effort to find out, Crowe surveys a wealth of evidence from surprisingly diverse sources, including archaeology, palaeoecology, genetics, ethnology and linguistics, and presents it here in the context of Polynesian poetry, the long-distance migration of birds, non-instrument navigation, and wind tunnel experiments. From this, a spell-binding picture emerges of a people who have been deprived of recognition for some of their most illustrious achievements.
With an engaging narrative, integrating a diversity of research and viewpoints, and over 400 maps, diagrams, photographs and illustrations, Crowe conveys the skills, innovation, resourcefulness and courage of the people that drove this extraordinary feat of maritime expansion
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