Christina Thompson’s wonderfully researched and beautifully written narrative brings these two stories together, gloriously and excitingly. “To those of the western hemisphere, the Pacific represents a vast unknown, almost beyond our imagining for its Polynesian island peoples, this fluid, shifting place is home. Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of MARGARET FULLER: A NEW AMERICAN LIFE In her capable hands this saga of Polynesia’s scattered islands becomes a comprehensive and dramatic history of our planet and the ways its peoples, creatures, vegetation, land forms, and waters interacted over the centuries and eons since the world began. “I have rarely read so exciting and companionable a narrative as Christina Thompson’s Sea People. It’s a compelling story, beautifully told, the best exploration narrative I’ve read in years.” - Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB “Who hasn’t stayed up late reading South Sea tales? Sea People is a South Sea tale to top them all-the exploration and settlement of the vast Pacific Ocean by stone-age Polynesians-and every word is true.
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