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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,195 ratings — published 2019
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,070 ratings — published 1948
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.57 — 6,033 ratings — published 1846
Call It Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,616 ratings — published 1940
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.20 — 140,372 ratings — published 2003
Hawaii (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,549 ratings — published 1959
The Whale Rider (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,439 ratings — published 1987
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,452 ratings — published 1957
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.46 — 20,274 ratings — published 2024
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,038 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 — 1,283 ratings — published 2011
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,070 ratings — published 1938
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,493 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 — 3,202 ratings — published 1928
The Wayfinder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,109 ratings — published 2025
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.15 — 42,779 ratings — published 2024
Tales of Polynesia: Folktales from Hawai'i, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.71 — 96 ratings — published
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.53 — 414 ratings — published
Something in the Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.55 — 233,284 ratings — published 2018
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,196,118 ratings — published 1954
Hotel Honolulu (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.46 — 2,649 ratings — published 2001
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,673 ratings — published 1992
The Descendants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,261 ratings — published 2007
Unfamiliar Fishes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.64 — 15,479 ratings — published 2011
The Penguin History of New Zealand (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,401 ratings — published 2003
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 4.13 — 442 ratings — published 2004
Tiare in Bloom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.00 — 415 ratings — published 2006
The Castaways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,478 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 — 4,184 ratings — published 2009
Once Were Warriors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,854 ratings — published 1990
Song of the Exile (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,825 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 — 1,668 ratings — published 2008
Ohana Means Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.12 — 986 ratings — published 2020
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 4.07 — 87 ratings — published 2000
In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific after Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.24 — 25 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 — 1,292 ratings — published 2017
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,130 ratings — published 1847
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 456,991 ratings — published 1997
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.88 — 124,909 ratings — published 2013
The Bounty Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,339 ratings — published 1790
Shark Dialogues (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,011 ratings — published 1994
Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.80 — 825 ratings — published 1968
Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,350 ratings — published 2002
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.01 — 267,509 ratings — published 2004
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,641 ratings — published 2004
We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Second Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.41 — 145 ratings — published 1972
Where We Once Belonged (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.66 — 632 ratings — published 1996
Beached in Bali (Island Escapes #4)
by (shelved 1 time as polynesia)
avg rating 4.51 — 63 ratings — published
Commune: Chasing a Utopian Dream in Aotearoa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polynesia)
avg rating 4.24 — 34 ratings — published
“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.”
― Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
― Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
“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
