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Voyagers

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An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.

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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.

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ISBN: 9781541619838
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Author: Nicholas Thomas
Publisher: Basic Books
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 224 pages
Genres: Australasian and Pacific history

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