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Author Buck, Peter H. (Peter Henry), Sir, 1880-1951

Title Vikings of the sunrise / by Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa)
Published Philadelphia [Pa.] : J.B. Lippincott, [1938]
©1938

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Description xiii, 335 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents The greayt ocean -- The manner of men -- Whence came they? -- Ships and their builders -- The eastern horizon -- Early explorers and settlers -- The center of the triangle -- The hub of Polynesia -- The southwest course -- The northwest atolls -- The northern equatorial islands -- The northeastern radial -- South and southeast -- The eastern atolls -- On the trail of the rising sun -- The mystery of Pitcairn -- The apex of the triangle -- The northern angle -- The southern angle -- The base of the triangle -- The trail of plants and animals -- Epilogue
Related To Also published as Vikings of the Pacific, WHICH SEE ALSO
Notes Also published: N.Y. : Frederick A. Stokes, 1938
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-323) and index
Subject Ethnology -- Polynesia.
Polynesians -- Migrations.
Polynesians.
SUBJECT Polynesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104688 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
LC no. 38027848