![]() ![]() Drawing on memoirs of both scientists and indigenous activists who are reviving traditional voyaging today, Thompson's book will likely become a standard text for anyone interested in dipping their toes in Pacific history. Thompson's carefully-researched and clearly-written book tells the story of historians, archaeologists, folklorists, anthropologists, and others who developed current theories of Pacific prehistory. ![]() When Europeans first discovered the Pacific they were amazed that people living as far away as Tahiti and Aotearoa/New Zealand spoke the same language, shared the same culture, and sailed between islands with an ease that confounded the European imagination. But Christina Thompson's Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia(Harper, 2019) has managed to do just that. ![]() It's rare for a book of non-fiction to catch the interest of the reading public in the United States, much less a book on the history of science in the Pacific. ![]()
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