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X-WR-CALDESC:Join us as we read Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Naviga
 tors of the Pacific by Christina Thompson. Copies are available at the lib
 rary.\n\nWinner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for
  nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history
 \nânâWonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Philip Hoare\, author o
 f Leviathan\n\n‘Succeeds in conjuring a lost world’ Dava Sobel\, author of
  Longitude\n\nFor more than a millennium\, Polynesians have occupied the r
 emotest islands in the Pacific Ocean\, a vast triangle stretching from Haw
 aii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explore
 rs they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most close
 ly related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the er
 a of mass migration\, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic
  voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventu
 res in human history.\n\nHow did the earliest Polynesians find and colonis
 e these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools
  conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum\, which came to be
  known as the Problem of Polynesian Origins\, emerged in the eighteenth ce
 ntury as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind.\n\nFor Christ
 ina Thompson\, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons 
 descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People\, Thompson e
 xplores the fascinating story of these ancestors\, as well as those of the
  many sailors\, linguists\, archaeologists\, folklorists\, biologists and 
 geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A 
 masterful mix of history\, geography\, anthropology\, and the science of n
 avigation\, Sea People is a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regi
 ons in the world.
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DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigat
 ors of the Pacific by Christina Thompson. Copies are available at the libr
 ary.\n\nWinner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for 
 nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history\n
 ‘Wonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Philip Hoare\, author of 
 Leviathan\n\n‘Succeeds in conjuring a lost world’ Dava Sobel\, author of L
 ongitude\n\nFor more than a millennium\, Polynesians have occupied the rem
 otest islands in the Pacific Ocean\, a vast triangle stretching from Hawai
 i to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers
  they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely
  related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era 
 of mass migration\, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic v
 oyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventure
 s in human history.\n\nHow did the earliest Polynesians find and colonise 
 these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools c
 onquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum\, which came to be k
 nown as the Problem of Polynesian Origins\, emerged in the eighteenth cent
 ury as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind.\n\nFor Christin
 a Thompson\, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons de
 scend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People\, Thompson exp
 lores the fascinating story of these ancestors\, as well as those of the m
 any sailors\, linguists\, archaeologists\, folklorists\, biologists and ge
 ographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A ma
 sterful mix of history\, geography\, anthropology\, and the science of nav
 igation\, Sea People is a vivid tour of one of the most captivating region
 s in the world.
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SUMMARY:Read Around the World Book Club: Sea People: In Search of the Ancie
 nt Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
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