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For #ReadingOceania2024 I selected this incredible read for #FrenchPolynesia. There is so much information here...history, culture, legends. Highly recommend this book if you have an interest in reading about this topic @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

This was wonderful! I learned a ton and really enjoyed the journey through all the different theories of how the Polynesians came to be. My absolute favourite part was the description of the journey by traditional navigational techniques and the young Hawaiian guy that learned how to do it in his own way, using his gut. There is just so so much we don't know or understand about human intuition and ways of sensing things. A highly recommended read.

This was a great listen. Really interesting. Ancient Polynesians successfully settled nearly all of the world‘s far-flung islands long before Europeans had the technology to visit. Where had they come from and why? How was this possible? Thompson explores this fascinating history and mystery of Polynesian navigation.

Fantastic books! Thompson describes the many theories behind the discovery and settling of the Polynesian islands, both of the first people and of the Europeans.

“Eddie would go”
I knew Eddie Aikau was lost on a trans-Pacific canoe trip but I didn‘t realize the significance of the trip until it was covered in this book.

Thanks for the #Top21of21 tag @DrexEdit! Not quite 21, but here's all my 5 Star reads of 2021:

And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing - Rekki
End of the Myth - Grandin
Ghostways - MacFarlane
Only Plane in the Sky - Graff
Sea People - Thompson
Greatest Beer Run Ever - Donohue
Human Cosmos - Marchant
Riding the Edge - Tobin
Swim in a Pond in the Rain - Saunders
Last Stargazers - Levesque
Miracle Country - Atleework
Elder Race - Tchaikovsky

Intriguing review of the history, science, culture, mythology, anthropology, custom, oral tradition, and colonial perspectives that attempt to understand the wayfinders and peoples of the Pacific. Only small quibbles: the perpetual naming of the focus of the book on the “problem” of who and how the people settled in Polynesia was the most annoying. Otherwise fascinating read.

Reading about great ocean voyages while looking at the creek behind my home. ❤️

Now I want to go to Polynesia.

An interesting look at the people of Polynesia (including #Hawaii) as relates to their origins and their interactions with white explorers. This book acknowledges that it is looking at this history from the white gaze as well as the problems inherent in that approach. I enjoyed it and learned a lot about this extraordinary group of people.

#ReadingUSA2019

I finally got my new library card! I‘m super excited, and this is my first stack. Now I need to go hunt through their online books. 😬

Do I spend way too much time google image searching various islands? MAYBE. (Go google Tristan da Cunha right now. You‘ll never believe it.) #howjessreadsin2019

Home with a sick kiddo today. So attempting to knock out the rest of this and get its review done... gotta be a little productive if I‘m missing work. 😝