Product Description: corner bent, else VG+ (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Surfing traces the history of the sport from its beginnings in ancient Hawaii through the mid 1960s. This revised edition of the 1966 classic features extensive illustrations, a new introduction, and articles by Mark Twain and Jack London recounting their observations on surfing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Why was Hokule's, a reconstruction of an ancient Polynesian voyaging canoe, built, and why have a group of Hawaiians and other Polynesians dedicated themselves to sailing it around Polynesia, including making a 12,000 nautical mile voyage from Hawaii to New Zealand and return? What do Tahitians and other French Polynesians think about France's nuclear testing program, an effort that has totally transformed their lives, giving them a per capita income greater than that of New Zealand while exposing them to the dangers of deadly radiation and rapid urbanization? What lies in store for humanity if the current effort to learn how to live and work in space eventually leads to human expansion throughout the solar system and beyond? In from Sea to Space anthropologist Ben Finney addresses these questions in three essays based on his MacMillan Brown Memorial Lectures delivered at Massey "University in September 1989...read more

Discusses the human aspects of establishing colonies in space, including resources, starship travel, space industries, biological aspects of small colony populations, past human colonization, and alien contact

Product Description: The Polynesian Society is a non-profit organization based at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, dedicated to the scholarly study of the history, ethnography, and mythology of Oceania. The society was co-founded in 1892 by Stephenson Percy Smith and Edward Tregear, largely in response to a conviction, widely held at the time, that the Maori and other Polynesian peoples were a dying race...read more

Product Description: 1973, hardcover edition, University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 206 pages. Here is an in-depth study of economic change in the New Guinea Highlands, based on field observation conducted in 1967 and 1968.