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Chargement... The Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands?par Kerry Howe
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I didn't read this title word for word (in fact, I basically skipped the sunken continents theory chapter) but it's definitely interesting in that you get the current accepted answers to Pacific Island settlement and a look at the 200 year history of researching (ok, that's generous for some of the wackadoo ideas but you get what I mean) the settlement pattern of the last habitable lands on earth. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Recent media speculation about who 'discovered' New Zealand (the Spanish? Phoenician? Portugese?) has provided continuing evidence of New Zealanders 'fascination with our origins and where we've come from. The Spanish helmet, the Tamil bell, the Korotahi bird, and so on and so on... All focus on other explanations of our origins and settlement. Was Tasman really the first? What about the Spanish galleon buried in the sand off Dargaville? And didn't the Maori come from South America? Or were they descended from the Hopi Indians of the US? In this provocative and fascinating book Professor Kerry Howe traces dozens of explanations and theories of both pre-Maori and pre-European settlement and assesses each one. At the same time he places them in their intellectual, historical and cultural context. The book uses maps and illustrations and scholarly research but is carefully written for a general lay audience and is not an academic book. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)995.0072History and Geography Oceania and elsewhere Melanesia; New GuineaClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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