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Paperback An Ocean in Mind Book

ISBN: 0824811127

ISBN13: 9780824811129

An Ocean in Mind

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An Ocean in Mind poses a number of provocative questions about the ways in which the human mind acquires, utilizes, and transmits different forms of knowledge. Author Will Kyselka has woven an exploration of this theme around the story of the Hokule'a, a re-creation of a traditional Polynesian sailing vessel that completed a successful roundtrip journey between Hawaii and Tahiti in 1980. From this story emerges portraits of two men who played integral...

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Polynesian Navigation made Understandable

This was an excellent book describing how a person taught himself how to navigate using the methods of the ancient Polynesians. If you are interested in how the Polynesians knew there were the islands of Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific and how they navigated to them you will enjoy reading this book. Excellent book on people observing nature and learning to use the observations to accomplish a goal.
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