- EAN13
- 9781541620056
- Éditeur
- Basic Books
- Date de publication
- 15/06/2021
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
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An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the
Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.
One of the Best Books of 2021 -- Wall Street Journal
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.
Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.
One of the Best Books of 2021 -- Wall Street Journal
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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