Title Pacific navigation and voyaging / compiled by Ben R. Finney

Published Wellington, N.Z. : Polynesian Society, 1976

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Description 146 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, maps (1 folded), plans ; 26 cm Series Polynesian Society memoir ; no. 39 Memoirs of the Polynesian Society ; no. 39 Memoirs of the Polynesian Society ; vol. 39 Contents A return voyage between Puluwat and Saipan using Micronesian navigational techniques / David Lewis -- Wa, vinta and trimaran / Edwin Doran Jr. -- Paddling experiments and the question of Polynesian voyaging / Steven M. Horvath, Ben R. Finney -- The settlement of the Polynesian outliers: a computer simulation / R. Gerard Ward, John W. Webb, M. Levison -- Sailing with the Amphlett Islanders / Peter K. Lauer -- The organisation of navigational knowledge on Puluwat / Saul H. Riesenberg -- A renaissance in Carolinian-Marianas voyaging / Michael McCoy Notes All contributions but one previously published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society Bibliography Bibliography: pages 139-143 Notes From the collection of Ron Vanderwal Subject Boats and boating -- Oceania. Maritime anthropology -- Oceania. Navigation -- Pacific Ocean. Navigation -- Oceania. Navigation -- Polynesia. Navigation. Pacific Islanders -- Boats. Pacific Islanders -- Migrations. Polynesians. Author Finney, Ben R. Polynesian Society (N.Z.). Journal LC no. 77371568

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