Tag: Polynesian

Free Download Reina Whaitiri, Robert Sullivan, "Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English (Whetu Moana)"
English | 2010 | pages: 292 | ISBN: 0824835417 | EPUB | 4,4 mb
Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English, edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri, and Robert Sullivan, is a follow-up volume to the highly acclaimed Whetu Moana, the first anthropology of Polynesian poems in English edited by Polynesians. The new book includes poetry written over the last twenty-five years by more than eighty writers from Aotearoa, Hawai’i, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Tahiti, and Rotuma.

Free Download Unearthing the Polynesian Past: Explorations and Adventures of an Island Archaeologist by Patrick Vinton Kirch
English | October 31, 2015 | ISBN: 0824853458 | 400 pages | EPUB | 37 Mb
Perhaps no scholar has done more to reveal the ancient history of Polynesia than noted archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch. For close to fifty years he explored the Pacific, as his work took him to more than two dozen islands spread across the ocean, from Mussau to Hawai’i to Easter Island. In this lively memoir, rich with personal―and often amusing―anecdotes, Kirch relates his many adventures while doing fieldwork on remote islands.