Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 58 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
Series |
Landmark Library ; bk. 23 |
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Nicholas, Thomas.
Landmark Library. Spoken word ; bk. 23
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Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Performer |
Narrated by Mark Robertson. |
Summary |
In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nick Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between the Americas and the western coast of Asia from late prehistory onwards: firstly the colonization by speakers of Austronesian languages of the western Pacific littoral, from around 3000 BC, of the Philippines, Indonesia, Micronesia and Melanesia; followed by the later settlement, by Polynesian peoples, of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Easter Island and eventually New Zealand, up to AD 1250. Alongside a compelling narrative of this remarkable sequence of long-distance migrations, Nick Thomas describes the sea-going technologies that allowed these epic voyages to take place; the nature of the cultures that embarked on them; and the societies that emerged across Oceania in their wake.2020 Head of Zeus Ltd |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Subject |
Polynesians -- History.
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Islands of the Pacific -- Discovery and exploration.
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Islands of the Pacific -- Colonization.
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Added Author |
Robertson, Mark, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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ISBN |
9781800246782 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1800246781 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
Music No. |
MWT13921627 |
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