Hawaiki Rising: Hokule'a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance

Synopsis

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 Stilled 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.--book Jacket. The True Story Of Hōkūle'a And The Men And Women Who Sailed In The Wake Of Their Ancestors To Discover Pride In Their Culture And Themselves. Sam Low. Includes Bibliographical References (page 336).