These essays examine the diverse plant environments of Polynesia, the relationship of plants to Polynesian voyaging, and use of specific plants by Polynesians.
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These essays examine the diverse plant environments of Polynesia, the relationship of plants to Polynesian voyaging, and use of specific plants by Polynesians.
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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For the benefit of those less familiar with the great diversity of Polynesian islands-both island to island, and within an island-some elementary Pacific geography seems appropriate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aboriginal introduction, scenting coconut oil, intensive dryfield cultivation, breadfruit season, scent coconut oil, seeded forms, littoral forests, taro cultivation, ethnobotanical research, kava drinking, precontact times, high islands, tapa cloth, bottle gourd, canoe building, shifting cultivation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Bishop Mus, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Solomon Islands, Dioscorides Press, Timber Press, South America, South Pacific, New York, Polynesian Society, Santa Cruz, Western Samoa, Hawaiian Islands, Special Publication, Captain Cook, Australian National Univ, Hakluyt Society, Nuku Hiva, South Seas, New Caledonia, Hawaii Press, New Hebrides, Western Province New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
For the benefit of those less familiar with the great diversity of Polynesian islands-both island to island, and within an island-some elementary Pacific geography seems appropriate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aboriginal introduction, scenting coconut oil, intensive dryfield cultivation, breadfruit season, scent coconut oil, seeded forms, littoral forests, taro cultivation, ethnobotanical research, kava drinking, precontact times, high islands, tapa cloth, bottle gourd, canoe building, shifting cultivation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Bishop Mus, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Solomon Islands, Dioscorides Press, Timber Press, South America, South Pacific, New York, Polynesian Society, Santa Cruz, Western Samoa, Hawaiian Islands, Special Publication, Captain Cook, Australian National Univ, Hakluyt Society, Nuku Hiva, South Seas, New Caledonia, Hawaii Press, New Hebrides, Western Province New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Ancient Tahiti (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin, 48.) by Teuira Henry on 5 pages
- A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas (The history of exploration) by Sydney Parkinson on 4 pages
- Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation (New Directions in Archaeology) by Patrick Vinton Kirch on page 131, and page 133
- Ethnology of Easter Island by Alfred Métraux on page 132, and page 145
- Anuta: A Polynesian Outlier in the Solomon Islands (Pacific Anthropological Records No 21) by D. E. Yen on page 95, and page 133
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- Tropical Ornamentals: A Guide by W. Arthur Whistler in Back Flap
- Plants and People of Nepal by Narayan P. Manandhar in Back Flap
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