Voyagers
The Settlement of the Pacific
From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5416-2005-6
- EAN: 9781541620056
- Produktnummer: 34841549
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Nicholas Thomas is professor of historical anthropology at Cambridge and director of the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Originally from Australia, he has written and edited numerous books over the years, including Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire, for which he was awarded the Wolfson History Prize in 2011. He lives in Cambridge.
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