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Re: We the Navigators
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2003 Feb 6, 15:54 +1100
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2003 Feb 6, 15:54 +1100
Sure is and there are a number of other books, all worth looking at. He got a university grant to study traditional Polynesian navigation, eventually writing a thesis that evolved into the books. There are always resourceful souls who invent all sorts of ways of making a living out of sailing, this was a particularly elegant solution to the problem, and he found others - in the Antarctic, for example. "Sellar, William E." wrote: > Hello > > I've been lurking on this list for several months. The recent mention of the death of David Lewis reminded me of a book I had called "We the Navigators" by David Lewis. Not sure if it is the same guy, but it seems that it must be. This is a great book, a definitive and thorough study of ancient Polynesian navigation. University of Hawaii press 1972, 1973. ISBN 0-8248-0394-9 > > Bill Sellar
