We, the Navigators The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Second Edition)

Name: We, the Navigators The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Second Edition)
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ISBN: 9780824815820

ISBN-10: 0824815823

ISBN-13: 9780824815820

Edition: 2nd 1994

Authors: David Lewis, Derek Oulton

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Book details

List price: $33.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 5/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Foreword to the first edition
Acknowledgments
Rediscovery of a Vanishing Art	p. 3
Piecing the Mosaic	p. 19
Voyaging Canoes	p. 53
Steering by the Stars	p. 82
Keeping Course by Sun, Swells, and Wind	p. 123
Dead Reckoning	p. 139
Orientation Concepts in Dead Reckoning	p. 167
Island Blocks, Birds, and Clouds	p. 195
Swell Patterns and Phosphorescence	p. 224
Expanded Target Landfall in Practice	p. 262
Position Fixing at Sea	p. 277
Reasons for Voyaging	p. 297
The Renaissance of Far Voyaging	p. 312
The Long Seaways of Eastern Polynesia	p. 342
Appendix I: Variations of Star Bearings with Latitude	p. 357
Appendix II: Directional Marks Ashore	p. 363
Appendix III: Table of Tahitian Star Pillars and Islands	p. 372
Notes	p. 373
Glossary	p. 403
Locations of the Main Islands and Other Places	p. 411
References	p. 419
Index	p. 433
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