Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand
By Jeff Evans
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The Polynesian navigator Kupe is credited with the discovery of New Zealand and his expedition named Aortearoa, land of the long white cloud. How did he and the many canoes that followed find their way without modern navigational techniques through preilous seas in wooden canoes?
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Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand
9781877514258
by Jeff Evans
Oratia Books
1 August 2011
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128
3.93 MB
2
English
Regional History
General/trade
Author Biography
Jeff Evans is a writer and photographer who works for leading clients in New Zealand and overseas. An authority on Maori canoes, Jeff is also the author of Waka Taua: The Maori War Canoe, Nga Waka o Nehera and Maori Weapons in Pre-European New Zealand, and editor of Elsdon Best's Notes on the Art of War. Jeff lives in Auckland.