Wayfinders : Exploring the Pacific
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File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Canoes and canoeing
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Release : 1995
Category : Canoes and canoeing
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Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887847668
Many of us are alarmed by the accelerating rates of extinction of plants and animals. But how many of us know that human cultures are going extinct at an even more shocking rate? While biologists estimate that 18 percent of mammals and 11 percent of birds are threatened, and botanists anticipate the loss of 8 percent of flora, anthropologists predict that fully 50 percent of the 7,000 languages spoken around the world today will disappear within our lifetimes. And languages are merely the canaries in the coal mine: what of the knowledge, stories, songs, and ways of seeing encoded in these voices? In The Wayfinders, Wade Davis offers a gripping and enlightening account of this urgent crisis. He leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures, describing the worldviews they represent and reminding us of the encroaching danger to humankind's survival should they vanish.
Author : Martha Vail
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780816052585
Interesting topics Include: Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales; Chinese porcelain; The crusades; The hajj; Medieval monsters; The Norse sagas; The search for spices; Sir John Mandeville's Travels.
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File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Canoes and canoeing
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Companion Web site to the PBS film of the same title. Provides information about the film, Polynesian history and its origins, wayfinding (non-instrument navigation), along with an "ask the experts" section, and, additional resources.
Author : Martha Vail
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 1438101864
Interesting topics include:Art of the Pacific peoplesCartographyEarly Pacific navigationMutinyRobinson CrusoeThe spice tradeWhalingWomen, slaves, and colonists.
Author : Dr Chellie Spiller, Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr and John Panoho
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1775502767
Author : Paul Dichter
Publisher : Lerner Publications (Tm)
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2018-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1541532589
Welcome to the Pacific Islands! Join Moana, her friends, and her family as you explore the history, culture, and stories of these great islands.
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824815820
This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean.
Author : Andrew Sharp
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Social Science
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Author : Leonard Frank Hobley
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Page : 71 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 1965
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