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Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific
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An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.
One of the Best Books of 2021 -- Wall Street Journal
The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake.Book Details
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publish Date: Jun 15th, 2021
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.60in - 1.10in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9781541619838
- Categories: • Oceania• Anthropology - Cultural & Social• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - Australian & Oceanian Studies
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About the Author
Nicholas Thomas is professor of historical anthropology at Cambridge and director of the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Originally from Australia, he has written and edited numerous books over the years, including Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire, for which he was awarded the Wolfson History Prize in 2011. He lives in Cambridge.
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"The peopling of the Pacific is one of humanity's greatest feats of imagination, ingenuity, and courage. Voyagers authoritatively recounts that achievement with both sympathy and wonder."
--David Armitage, Harvard UniversityWhat people are saying
Award-winning independent publisher. Sprung fully formed. Including @AriaFiction 🌸 @AriesFiction 💥, @_ZephyrBooks 🌍 and @AdAstraFiction 🚀
Thousands of islands, inhabited by a multitude of different peoples. Who were these people and where did they come from? #Voyagers by Nicholas Thomas is now Get your copy today: https://t.co/v5lU2caUKM https://t.co/5W1M3B3NKj
Host of the the CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor; novelist as John Calvin Batchelor. Above: MidSummer gardening with Gladiolas & Lillies opening.
4/4 Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (The Landmark Library), by Nicholas Thomas Hardcover – January 7, 2021 https://audioboom.com/posts/8004739-4-4-voyagers-the-settlement-of-the-pacific-the-landmark-library-by-nicholas-thomas-hardcov via @Audioboom
