Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister¿s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier''s History Awards for general history¿Wonderfully researched and beautifully written¿ Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan¿Succeeds in conjuring a lost world¿ Dava Sobel, author of LongitudeFor more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history.How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonise these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? This conundrum, which cam
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