Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific

No signatures. Some small tears and chips to margins of dust-jacket. A couple of price-stickers on the dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1969 reprint of a title first published in 1963. 159 pages + 9 plates. Maps on endpapers. Dark blue papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 138mm. "Though for more than a hundred years it was believed that New Zealand, Hawaii and other detached islands were discovered by Polynesian explorers who returned to their home islands and stimulated deliberate colonizaing expeditions to their discoveries, in 1956 Andrew Sharp threw the greatest doubt on these reconstructions. He brought a mass of evidence to support that theory that planned two-way navigation between distant islands in prehistoric times would have been impossible, and that their settlement was achieved by one-way voyagers who happened on them after being blown away in storms or after loading canoes with livestock, plants and other commodities and setting out in the hope of finding other land." - from dust-jacket blurb.

Product Info

Publisher: Longman Paul

Year: (1969)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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