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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,713 ratings — published 2019
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,531 ratings — published 1948
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,158 ratings — published 1846
Call It Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,787 ratings — published 1940
The Wayfinder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,195 ratings — published 2025
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.20 — 142,335 ratings — published 2003
Hawaii (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.22 — 82,228 ratings — published 1959
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.46 — 23,965 ratings — published 2024
The Whale Rider (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,898 ratings — published 1987
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,471 ratings — published 1957
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,131 ratings — published 2015
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,306 ratings — published 2011
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,113 ratings — published 1938
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,614 ratings — published 2002
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,248 ratings — published 1928
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.13 — 50,301 ratings — published 2024
Tales of Polynesia: Folktales from Hawai'i, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.70 — 107 ratings — published
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.53 — 425 ratings — published
Something in the Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.55 — 241,114 ratings — published 2018
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,267,755 ratings — published 1954
Hotel Honolulu (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.46 — 2,680 ratings — published 2001
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,753 ratings — published 1992
The Descendants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,437 ratings — published 2007
Unfamiliar Fishes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.65 — 15,677 ratings — published 2011
Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island – A Provocative Archaeological Study of Colonial Legacy, Indigenous Reclamation, and the Collapse Myth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.73 — 265 ratings — published
The Penguin History of New Zealand (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,487 ratings — published 2003
I Am Not Your Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.52 — 205 ratings — published 2022
Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey through Polynesia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.32 — 19 ratings — published 1994
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.14 — 466 ratings — published 2004
Tiare in Bloom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.02 — 423 ratings — published 2006
The Castaways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.94 — 27,631 ratings — published 2021
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (CBC Massey Lecture)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,306 ratings — published 2009
Once Were Warriors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,972 ratings — published 1990
Song of the Exile (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,855 ratings — published 1999
Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,724 ratings — published 2008
Ohana Means Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,005 ratings — published 2020
Hawaiian Mythology (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.84 — 247 ratings — published 1940
On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.09 — 89 ratings — published 2000
In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific after Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.19 — 27 ratings — published 1995
The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,329 ratings — published 2017
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,155 ratings — published 1847
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,634 ratings — published 1997
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.88 — 126,646 ratings — published 2013
The Bounty Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,358 ratings — published 1790
Shark Dialogues (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,070 ratings — published 1994
Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.80 — 862 ratings — published 1968
The Fatal Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.98 — 256 ratings — published 1966
Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,383 ratings — published 2002
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.01 — 272,506 ratings — published 2004
“The case of Ballantyne's The Coral Island is instructive, for the author had never seen a coral island, or, indeed, a palm tree, or a coconut, and his novel is a construction out of his reading of other books, some of which are pillaged to the point of plagarism. The textual bricolage is matched by the ironic presentation of the imperial values which it is generally assumed the book exists to promote: a pirate by the name of 'Bloody Bill' is allowed to articulate how useful religion is to the advancement of trade (and plunder).”
― The International Companion to the Scottish Novel
― The International Companion to the Scottish Novel
“That’s what I like about Polynesians. They wear their hearts on their sleeve knowing that, for adults, there are better games to play than hiding their emotions from each other”
― Why Not?: The island where happiness starts with a question
― Why Not?: The island where happiness starts with a question
