Tupaia: Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator - Hardcover

Druett, Joan

 
9780313387487: Tupaia: Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0313387486 ISBN 13: 9780313387487
Verlag: Praeger, 2010

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This book offers a biography of the unacknowledged Tahitian navigator who was essential to the success and eventual fame of Captain Cook's historic voyage on the Endeavour. Tupaia was the brilliant Polynesian navigator and translator who sailed with Captain James Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour across the South Pacific, and interceded on behalf of the European voyagers with the warrior Maori of New Zealand. As a man of high social ranking, Tupaia was also invaluable as an intermediary, interpreting local rituals and ceremonies. Joseph Banks, the botanist with Cook's expedition, is famous for describing the manners and customs of the Polynesian people in detail. Much of the credit for this information rightfully belongs to Tupaia―indeed, he could aptly be called the Pacific's first anthropologist. Despite all this, Tupaia's colorful tale has never been part of the popular Captain Cook legend. This unique book tells the first-contact story with Europeans as seen through the eyes of the Polynesians, and documents how Tupaia's contributions changed the history of the Pacific.

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Verlag
Praeger
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0313387486
ISBN 13 
9780313387487
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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