Kon-Tiki revisited / Robert Langdon
- Bib ID:
- 4583296
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Langdon, Robert, 1924-2003
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009
- xvi, 378 p. : geneal. tables, ill., ports., maps ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1740971345
- 9781740971348
- Summary:
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"In 1526, several ships of a Spanish expedition entered the Pacific from the Straits of Magellan. One of them, the San Lesmes, was never seen again. Four centuries later, in 1929, four iron cannons were found on the reef of Amanu atoll, French Polynesia. The find created little interest until 1975, when Robert Langdon argued that the cannons were from the San Lesmes, the crew had survived and intermarried and that vital aspects of the wider development of Pacific island communities needed to be reassessed. Now, in Kon-Tiki Revisited, Langdon makes an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the complexity of Polynesian origins." --Publisher.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: 1 Of raftsmen and sweet potatoes 14
- 2 From Galician hdrreo to Maori pataka 47
- 3 The blue-egg chicken mystery 79
- 4 The much-travelled banana 113
- 5 Coconuts on Easter Island in 1722 139
- 6 A hot topic: the capsicum 147
- 7 New World cotton 156
- 8 The neglected soapberry 169
- 9 Lost in translation: four cultivated plants 180
- 10 Why maize is called tarake in Rapanui 198
- 11 The unsuspected pumpkin 212
- 12 Small and sweet: the pineapple 235
- 13 From Andean chullpa to Rapanui tupa 251
- 14 The language of a vanished world 273
- Epilogue 308
- Notes and references 322
- Literature cited 343.
- Notes:
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- Bibliography: pp. 343-371.
- Index present.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-371) and index.
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- Copyright:
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- Until 2079 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- 2003
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- Publication date:
- 2009
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