Canoes of the Grand Ocean

£43.00
Editors:
Anne Di Piazza and Erik Pearthree
Publication Year:
2008
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407302898
Paperback:
172pp. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings and photographs including 13 colour plates
ISBN 10:
1407302892
BAR number:
S1802
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
If Oceanic canoes, by their very strangeness were surprising to the earliest European observers, it was not long before their descriptions shifted from being impressed, enthusiastic or fascinated and gave way to detailed observations, measurements, comparisons and representations. Canoes are also the means by which the islanders apprehend space. In this perspective, this interesting volume on the study of canoes of the 'Grand Ocean' remains a vehicle for discovery.