Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle'a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance - Tapa blanda

Low, Sam

 
9780824875244: Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle'a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance
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ISBN 10: 0824875249 ISBN 13: 9780824875244
Editorial: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019

Sinopsis

Attuned to a world of natural signs―the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells―Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to settle the vast Pacific Ocean. And they did this when Greek mariners still hugged the coast of an inland sea, and Europe was populated by stone-age farmers. Yet by the turn of the twentieth century, this story had been lost and Polynesians had become an oppressed minority in their own land. Then, in 1975, a replica of an ancient Hawaiian canoe―Hokule‘a―was launched to sail the ancient star paths, and help Hawaiians reclaim pride in the accomplishments of their ancestors.

Hawaiki Rising tells this story in the words of the men and women who created and sailed aboard Hokule‘a. They speak of growing up at a time when their Hawaiian culture was in danger of extinction; of their vision of sailing ancestral sea-routes; and of the heartbreaking loss of Eddie Aikau in a courageous effort to save his crewmates when Hokule‘a capsized in a raging storm. We join a young Hawaiian, Nainoa Thompson, as he rediscovers the ancient star signs that guided his ancestors, navigates Hokule‘a to Tahiti, and becomes the first Hawaiian to find distant landfall without charts or instruments in a thousand years.

Hawaiki Rising is the saga of an astonishing revival of indigenous culture by voyagers who took hold of the old story and sailed deep into their ancestral past.

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Sam Low served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific from 1964 to 1966 and earned a PhD in anthropology from Harvard in 1975. He produced the award-winning film, The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific, and is the author of many articles on the canoe, and her meaning to Polynesians. He has sailed aboard Hōkūle‘a on three voyages, from 1999 to 2007.

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Editorial
University of Hawai'i Press
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0824875249
ISBN 13 
9780824875244
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
344
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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4831 GR
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9781617102004: Hawaiki Rising: Hokulea, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance

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ISBN 10:  1617102008 ISBN 13:  9781617102004
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