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This is an account of the voyage of a mostly Hawaiian crew, in a reconstructed ancient double canoe, from Hawaii to New Zealand. They did this without the aid of navigational equipment, and with the aim of proving that their ancestors had done just the same thousands of years earlier.

Table of Contents
Figures
Preface

1 Without Ships or Compass
2 Experimental Voyaging
3 Cultural Revival
4 More than Halfway Around the World
5 Wait for the West Wind
6 Voyage to Aotearoa
7 Sailing Back and Forth Between Hawai'i and Tahiti
8 Putting Voyaging Back into Polynesian Prehistory
9 The Family of the Canoe

Appendixes
About the Drawings
Notes
References
Index

Voyage of Rediscovery

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 09/11/1994
      ISBN13: 9780520080027, 978-0520080027
      ISBN10: 0520080025
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      Geographical discovery and exploration Anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is an account of the voyage of a mostly Hawaiian crew, in a reconstructed ancient double canoe, from Hawaii to New Zealand. They did this without the aid of navigational equipment, and with the aim of proving that their ancestors had done just the same thousands of years earlier.

      Table of Contents
      Figures
      Preface

      1 Without Ships or Compass
      2 Experimental Voyaging
      3 Cultural Revival
      4 More than Halfway Around the World
      5 Wait for the West Wind
      6 Voyage to Aotearoa
      7 Sailing Back and Forth Between Hawai'i and Tahiti
      8 Putting Voyaging Back into Polynesian Prehistory
      9 The Family of the Canoe

      Appendixes
      About the Drawings
      Notes
      References
      Index

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