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Sea People
- In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific
- Lu par : Susan Lyons
- Durée : 11 h et 40 min
- Catégories : Biographies et mémoires, Aventuriers, explorateurs et survie

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Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history
For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii 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 voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history.
How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonise 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 18th century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind.
For Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these ancient navigators. In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancestors as well as the stories of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists and geographers who have puzzled over this history for 300 years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology and the science of navigation, Sea People is a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world.
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"I loved this book. I found Sea People the most intelligent, empathic, engaging, wide-ranging, informative, and authoritative treatment of Polynesian mysteries that I have ever read. Christina Thompson’s gorgeous writing arises from a deep well of research and succeeds in conjuring a lost world." (Dava Sobel, author of Longitude and The Glass Universe)
"To those of the western hemisphere, the Pacific represents a vast unknown, almost beyond our imagining; for its Polynesian island peoples, this fluid, shifting place is home. Christina Thompson’s wonderfully researched and beautifully written narrative brings these two stories together, gloriously and excitingly. Filled with teeming grace and terrible power, her book is a vibrant and revealing new account of the watery part of our world." (Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan)
"A compelling story, beautifully told, the best exploration narrative I’ve read in years." (Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb)
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