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Māori and Indigenous Studies: Māori - Polynesian Navigation

This Library and Study Guide is to assist students who are studying Māori at the University of Canterbury and Faculty of Education.

Māori - Polynesian Navigation

Māori - Polynesian Navigation

 

Sharp, Andrew
Ancient voyagers in Polynesia.
Auckland : Paul's Book Arcade, 1963.

Goetzfridt, Nicholas J.
Indigenous navigation and voyaging in the Pacific : a reference guide
New York : Greenwood Press, 1992.

Nelson, Anne
Maori canoes = Nga waka Maori
Wellington, N.Z. : IPL Books, 1998.

Finney, Ben R.
Pacific navigation and voyaging
Wellington, N.Z. : Polynesian Society, 1976.

Thompson, Judi.
Polynesian canoes and navigation
Laie, Hawaii : Institute for Polynesian Studies, c1980.

Dodd, Edward
Polynesian seafaring
Lymington [England] : Nautical in association with George G. Harrap, 1972.

Finney, Ben R.
Sailing in the wake of the ancestors : reviving Polynesian voyaging
Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press, c2003.

Best, Elsdon
The Maori canoe and Polynesian voyagers
New York : AMS Press, [1977]

Howe, K.R. (ed.)
Vaka moana : voyages of the ancestors : the discovery and settlement of the Pacific
Auckland, N.Z. : David Bateman, 2006.

Lewis, David
We, the navigators : the ancient art of land finding in the Pacific
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1994.

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