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Contents
ОглавлениеPart I: The Eyewitnesses (1521–1722)
A Very Great Sea: The Discovery of Oceania
First Contact: Mendaña in the Marquesas
Barely an Island at All: Atolls of the Tuamotus
Outer Limits: New Zealand and Easter Island
Part II: 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
Part III: 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 Māori: An Unlikely Idea
A Viking in Hawai‘i: Abraham Fornander
Voyaging Stories: History and Myth
Part IV: The Rise of Science (1920–1959)
Somatology: The Measure of Man
A Māori 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
Part V: Setting Sail (1947–1980)
Kon-Tiki: Thor Heyerdahl’s Raft
Drifting Not Sailing: Andrew Sharp
The Non-Armchair Approach: David Lewis Experiments
Reinventing Navigation: Nainoa Thompson
Part VI: What We Know Now (1990–2018)