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Voyagers

De: Nicholas Thomas
Narrado por: Mark Robertson
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An award-winning scholar explores the 60,000-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.

One of the Best Books of 2021 - Wall Street Journal

The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean?

In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake.

©2021 Nicholas Thomas (P)2021 Basic Books

Resumo da Crítica

"Mr. Thomas began to study Pacific prehistory in the 1980s, a great period for archaeological research, and his account of this intellectual revolution is clear and compelling.” (Wall Street Journal)

"The author highlights a dizzying burst of new research that draws on advanced genetics, linguistics and, not least, a revival of voyaging itself by indigenous navigators.” (Economist)

"Thomas should be commended for his engaging writing style, which regularly had me looking forward to turning the page. I would not be surprised if, after reading this masterpiece, many readers are compelled to take up voyaging themselves.” (Science)

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