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Polynesian Traditions of Migration: Wayfinding & Polynesian Navigation

Resources on voyaging in Hawai'i and the Pacific

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Ancient Voyagers in Polynesia by Andrew Sharp
Call Number: MAIN DU510 .S5 1964
Astronomy and navigation in Polynesia and Micronesia. A survey. by Åkerblom, Kjell
Call Number: HAWN GN440 .A34
Publication Date: 1968
Emergency Navigation: find your position and shape your course at sea even if your instruments fail by David Burch
Call Number: VIEW ONLINE
ISBN: 0071481842
Publication Date: 2008
Indigenous Navigation and Voyaging in the Pacific by Nicholas J. Goetzfridt
Call Number: MAIN GN440 .I53 1992
ISBN: 0313277397
Man's Conquest of the Pacific by Peter Bellwood
Call Number: MAIN GN871 B44 1979
ISBN: 0195201035
Pacific navigation and voyaging by Compiled by Ben R. Finney.
Call Number: MAIN GN871 .P29
Publication Date: 1976
Polynesian Seafaring Heritage by Cecilia Kapua Lindo, Nancy Alpert Mower, editors
Call Number: HAWN DU625.8 .P65 1980
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The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonisation of the Pacific by Geoffrey Irwin
Call Number: MAIN GN871 .I78 1994
ISBN: 0521476518
To Find the Way by Susan Nunes; Cissy Gray (Illustrator)
Call Number: HAWN PZ 7 .N96454 To 1992
ISBN: 0824813766
Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors by K. R. Howe
Call Number: HAWN GN670 .V35 2007
ISBN: 0824832132
Voices on the wind: Polynesian myths and chants by Luomala, Katharine
Call Number: HAWN BL2620.P6 L82 1986
ISBN: 093087153
Voyage of Rediscovery - A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia by Finney, Ben R.; Marlene Among (Contribution by); R. Rhodes (Illustrator)
Call Number: HAWN GN670 .F56 1994
ISBN: 0520080025
Publication Date: 1994
Voyagers by Herb K. Kane; Paul Berry (Editor); Robert B. Goodman (Introduction by)
Call Number: HAWN DU625.K3 V6 1991
ISBN: 0962709514
We, the Navigators: the ancient art of landfinding in the Pacific by David Lewis; Derek Oulton (Editor)
Call Number: HAWN GN440 .L48 1994
ISBN: 0824815823
The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania by Terry L. Hunt and Ethan E. Cochrane (Editors)
Call Number: MAIN GN871 .O95 2018
ISBN: 0199925070

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Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation
This exhibit from the Exploratorium in San Francisco explores the origins and facets of voyaging.
On Wayfinding
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Recommended Readings

"Steering by Stars and Sea" in Polynesian Seafaring Heritage by Herb Kawainui Kane
Call Number: HAWN DU625.8 .P65 1980
Table of Contents
See pp. 102-106
The Voyage to Tahiti = Ka huakaʻi i Kahiki by Mower, Nancy Alpert.; Akina, Allen
Call Number: HAWN PZ7.M8663 Vo
"Retells the ancient story of a voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti to bring back the High Chief's eldest son."

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