Polynesia


Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Kon-Tiki
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
Call It Courage
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
Hawaii
The Whale Rider
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
The Wayfinder
R.M. Ballantyne
The only place among the southern islands where a ship can put in and get what it wants in comfort is where the Gospel has been sent to. For my part, I don't know and I don't care what the Gospel does to them, but I know that when any o' the islands chance to get it, trade goes smooth and easy. ...more
R.M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island

Christina Thompson
There is a reason the remote Pacific was the last place on Earth to be settled by humans: it was the most difficult, more daunting even than the deserts or the ice.
Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

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