Canoes of the Grand Ocean

Edited by Anne Di Piazza and Erik Pearthree

40.8051.60

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ISBN: 9781407302898
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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.