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portada Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle‘A, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
344
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.6 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.52 kg.
ISBN13
9780824875244
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Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle‘A, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance

Sam Low (Author) · University of Hawaii Press · Paperback

Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle‘A, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance - Low, Sam

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Synopsis "Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle‘A, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance "

Attuned to a world of natural signs--the stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swells--Polynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to settle the vast Pacific Ocean. And they did this when Greek mariners still hugged the coast of an inland sea, and Europe was populated by stone-age farmers. Yet by the turn of the twentieth century, this story had been lost and Polynesians had become an oppressed minority in their own land. Then, in 1975, a replica of an ancient Hawaiian canoe--Hōkūle'a--was launched to sail the ancient star paths, and help Hawaiians reclaim pride in the accomplishments of their ancestors. Hawaiki Rising tells this story in the words of the men and women who created and sailed aboard Hōkūle'a. They speak of growing up at a time when their Hawaiian culture was in danger of extinction; of their vision of sailing ancestral sea-routes; and of the heartbreaking loss of Eddie Aikau in a courageous effort to save his crewmates when Hōkūle'a capsized in a raging storm. We join a young Hawaiian, Nainoa Thompson, as he rediscovers the ancient star signs that guided his ancestors, navigates Hōkūle'a to Tahiti, and becomes the first Hawaiian to find distant landfall without charts or instruments in a thousand years. Hawaiki Rising is the saga of an astonishing revival of indigenous culture by voyagers who took hold of the old story and sailed deep into their ancestral past.

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