We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Second Edition)University of Hawaii Press, 01/05/1994 - 464 páginas This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean. |
Índice
Rediscovery of a Vanishing Art | 3 |
Piecing the Mosaic | 19 |
PART TWO Directing the Craft | 51 |
Voyaging Canoes | 53 |
Steering by the Stars | 82 |
Keeping Course by Sun Swells and Wind | 123 |
PART THREE Orientation on the Empty Ocean | 137 |
Dead Reckoning | 139 |
Position Fixing at Sea | 277 |
Reasons for Voyaging | 297 |
The Renaissance of Far Voyaging | 312 |
The Long Seaways of Eastern Polynesia | 342 |
Variations of Star Bearings with Latitude | 357 |
Directional Marks Ashore | 363 |
Table of Tahitian Star Pillars and Islands | 372 |
Glossary | 403 |
Orientation Concepts in Dead Reckoning | 167 |
PART FOUR Expanding Ones Target and Position Fixing | 193 |
Island Blocks Birds and Clouds | 195 |
Swell Patterns and Phosphorescence | 224 |
Expanded Target Landfall in Practice | 262 |
Locations of the Main Islands and Other Places | 411 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abera Akerblom archipelago Atoll azimuth Beaglehole bearing birds boobies Brum captain Caroline Group Carolinian chart clouds comm Cook Islands Cruz Reef Islands dead reckoning distance double canoe drift east Ellice etak European Faraulep Fiji Gatty Gilbertese Gilberts Gladwin Grimble Ha'apai Hawaii Hawaiian Hipour Hōkūle'a horizon indicate Iotiebata Isbjorn Kiribati land landfall latitude Line Islands lore Marianas Marquesas Marshallese Micronesian miles navigator Nikunau Ninigo noddies ocean Oceania orientation outrigger Pacific pahi passage Piailug Pikelot Pole Star Polynesian position Pukapuka Pulusuk Puluwat Rarotonga Reef Islands reference Rehu Moana rising Rotuma Saipan Samoa Santa Cruz Reef Satawal sidereal compass sight southeast Southern Cross star compass star courses star path star points steering stones swell tack Tahiti Tahitian Taumako techniques Teeta Tevake Tikopia tion Tokelau Tonga tongiaki trade traditional Truk Tuamotus Tuita vessel voyaging canoes waves Western wind compass windward Winkler Woleai Zealand zenith star
Referências a este livro
Intelligent Behavior in Animals and Robots David McFarland,Tom Bösser Pré-visualização limitada - 1993 |
Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology Patrick Vinton Kirch,Roger C. Green Pré-visualização limitada - 2001 |