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Voyagers is a refreshing addition to the canon of literature that contemplates Oceanic navigation. Nicholas Thomas looks anew at early Western forays into the Pacific and at those such as Dampier and Cook who recognized not only the astounding long-distance capacity of Indigenous canoes, but that oceanic peoples were related.
He weaves together accounts of explorers and missionaries whose knowledge of Pacific geography was fundamentally informed by their island hosts. This notion of shared knowledge evinces not only Indigenous agency of the past, but a framework for the future.
Voyagers is at once global yet intimate, shaped by Thomas’ own Pacific journeys, and filled with wonderful images, historical and contemporary, that pay homage to Oceania’s profound relationship with the sea.
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