| Title | : | Voyagers : The Settlement of the Pacific (The Landmark Library (The Landmark Library) |
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| Author | : | Nicholas Thomas |
| Release | : | 2021-01-07 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | History |
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| 1 | Voyagers : The Settlement of the Pacific | Nicholas Thomas |
| In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nick Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between the Americas and the western coast of Asia from late prehistory onwards: firstly the colonization by speakers of Austronesian languages of the western Pacific littoral, from around 3000 BC, of the Philippines, Indonesia, Micronesia and Melanesia; followed by the later settlement, by Polynesian peoples, of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Easter Island and eventually New Zealand, up to AD 1250. Alongside a compelling narrative of this remarkable sequence of long-distance migrations, Nick Thomas describes the sea-going technologies that allowed these epic voyages to take place; the nature of the cultures that embarked on them; and the societies that emerged across Oceania in their wake. 2020 Head of Zeus Ltd |
