TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howe, K. R.
ED  - Auckland War Memorial Museum.
TI  - Vaka moana: voyages of the ancestors : the discovery and settlement of the Pacific 
SN  - 9781869536251
AV  - GN670 .V35 2006
U1  - 996 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Auckland, N.Z.
PB  - David Bateman, Auckland Museum
KW  - Polynesians
KW  - Migrations
KW  - Navigation
KW  - Polynesia
KW  - History
KW  - Hekenga
KW  - reo
KW  - Whakatere waka hourua
KW  - Rangahau o te noho-ā-iwi
KW  - Discoveries in geography
KW  - fast
KW  - Kōrero nehe
KW  - Islands of the Pacific
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Pacific Ocean
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-350) and index; The last frontier / K.R. Howe -- Polynesian oral traditions / Rawiri Taonui -- Voyaging and settlement / Geoffrey Irwin -- Ocean sailing canoes / Ben Finney -- Navigation / Ben Finney and Sam Low -- Pacific voyaging after the exploration period / Roger Neich -- Two worlds / Anne Salmond -- Western ideas about islanders' origins / K.R. Howe -- Renaissance / Ben Finney
N2  - Chapters cover: the human settlement of the globe; origin and traditions of Pacific peoples; important findings in archaeology, linguistics and genetic studies; traditional canoe building and sailing techniques; pre-instrument navigational systems; ancient Pacific voyaging and trading routes; the arrival of the West and its impact on Pacific peoples; the modern revival by today's Pacific peoples of canoe building and traditional navigation
ER  -