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Ancient Tonga and the Lost City of Mu'a (Lost Cities of the Pacific Series)

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This book takes the reader into the maritime realm of the first seafarers of the Pacific Ocean. Most fascinating of the ancient cith of Mu where the first pan-Pacific maritime university trained sailing fleets to discover and chart this very ancient part of the world. Delves a little bit into possible ties with Lemuria and other lost lands of the Pacific.

Childress has uncovered a deep Pacific base for ancient navigators,
who were much more likely the ancestors of American megalithic
builders than the posited but unlikely survivors of a Berengia
migration to the New World -- even though academic texts still fondly
describe ice-age hunters following wandering caribou over thousands of
miles of thick icesheets where neither the hunters nor the hunted
would have had anything to eat.

Good compilation of information (as you can probably judge from the 5-page bibliography), but not much of a leisurely read. Discusses possible origin of the polynesians, ancient ruins found on the said islands, as well as legends and artifacts passed on through generations. The author manages to touch alot of topics, but as a general interest book, it just doesn't work.