A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i by Patrick Vinton Kirch

A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i

Patrick Vinton Kirch

368 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from abo...

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