Author(s): Andrew Sharpe

Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration | Secondhand

This book gives.a restatement of the arrival and early development in all the Island's of the Pacific from Yap and New Guinea to Easter Island, and from Hawaii to New Zealand. It examines the 200 eyyear ld problem of Polynesian origins and migrations, and reaches conclusios which, while in opposition to current views both conventional and unconventional, claim to be derived from the observations and opinions of Cook and many other early visitors to the Pacific, supported by modern data. 

This copy has a ripped dust jacket and library stamp inside.