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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,925 ratings — published 2019
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,838 ratings — published 1948
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.57 — 5,978 ratings — published 1846
Call It Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,513 ratings — published 1940
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.20 — 139,478 ratings — published 2003
Hawaii (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,227 ratings — published 1959
The Whale Rider (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,177 ratings — published 1987
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,428 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 — 17,971 ratings — published 2024
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,987 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 — 1,277 ratings — published 2011
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,061 ratings — published 1938
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,423 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 — 3,176 ratings — published 1928
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.16 — 37,879 ratings — published 2024
Tales of Polynesia: Folktales from Hawai'i, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.65 — 89 ratings — published
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.54 — 404 ratings — published
Once Were Warriors (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,805 ratings — published 1990
Something in the Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.55 — 228,961 ratings — published 2018
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,154,098 ratings — published 1954
Hotel Honolulu (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.46 — 2,631 ratings — published 2001
Shark Dialogues (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,984 ratings — published 1994
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,635 ratings — published 1992
The Descendants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,169 ratings — published 2007
Unfamiliar Fishes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.64 — 15,401 ratings — published 2011
The Wayfinder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.24 — 82 ratings — published 2025
The Penguin History of New Zealand (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,353 ratings — published 2003
Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey through Polynesia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 1994
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.15 — 432 ratings — published 2004
Tiare in Bloom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.01 — 414 ratings — published 2006
The Castaways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.95 — 23,834 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 — 4,138 ratings — published 2009
Song of the Exile (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,808 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 — 1,638 ratings — published 2008
Ohana Means Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.12 — 976 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 4.05 — 85 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 — 1,271 ratings — published 2017
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,116 ratings — published 1847
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 450,946 ratings — published 1997
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.88 — 123,889 ratings — published 2013
The Bounty Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,324 ratings — published 1790
Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.81 — 812 ratings — published 1968
Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,339 ratings — published 2002
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.01 — 265,152 ratings — published 2004
We Are the Ocean: Selected Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.25 — 144 ratings — published 2008
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,260 ratings — published 2004
We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Second Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.42 — 142 ratings — published 1972
Where We Once Belonged (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.65 — 623 ratings — published 1996
The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polynesia)
avg rating 3.94 — 730 ratings — published 2004
“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
“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
