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sky294583970 |
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SKY |
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20200117154356.0 |
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190301s2019 nyuab b 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780062060877 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| Terms of availability |
$29.99 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0062060872 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
GIP |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
GIP |
| Modifying agency |
ZQP |
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CIB |
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SKYRV |
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MiTN |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
pops--- |
| 050 #0 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
DU510 |
| Item number |
.T56 2019 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Thompson, Christina, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1959- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Sea people : |
| Remainder of title |
the puzzle of Polynesia / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Christina Thompson. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York, NY : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
[2019] |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York, NY : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2019] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvi, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations (some color), maps (some on endpapers) ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent. |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia. |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 2# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Prologue: Kealakekua Bay -- The eyewitnesses (1521-1722). A very great sea : the discovery of Oceania ; First contact : Mendana in the Marquesas ; Barely an island at all : atolls of the Tuamotus ; Outer limits : New Zealand and Easter Island -- Connecting the dots (1764-1778). Tahiti : the heart of Polynesia ; A man of knowledge : Cook meets Tupaia ; Tupaia's chart : two ways of seeing ; An aha moment : a Tahitian in New Zealand -- Why not just ask them? (1778-1920). Drowned continents and other theories : the nineteenth-century Pacific ; A world without writing : Polynesian oral traditions ; The Aryan Maori : an unlikely idea ; A viking in Hawai'i : Abraham Fornander ; Voyaging stories : history and myth -- The rise of science (1920-1959). Somatology : the mesure of man ; A Maori anthropologist : Te Rangi Hiroa ; The Moa hunters : stone and bones ; Radiocarbon dating : the question of when ; The Lapita people : a key piece of the puzzle -- Setting sail (1947-1980). Kon-Tiki : Thor Heyerdahl's raft ; Drifting not sailing : Andrew Sharp ; The non-armchair approach : David Lewis experiments ; Hokole'a : sailing to Tahiti ; Reinventing navigation : Nainoa Thompson -- What we know now (1990-2018). The latest science : DNA and dates ; Coda : two ways of knowing. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
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. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? For author 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 those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists, and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Polynesians |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Navigation |
| Geographic subdivision |
Polynesia |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Polynesia |
| General subdivision |
Discovery and exploration. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |