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College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, (1981). First Edition, Review Copy with slip laid-in. Quarto (10.25" x 9"), 111 pages, illustrations throughout including drawings, maps, tables, charts, & photographs. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.Covers lightly spotted & soiled, modest foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise Very Good in soiled dust jacked with trace edge wear & wrinkling (mostly at the rear panel), about Very Good.
"Were the Austronesians hapless travelers on fragile craft, drifted at the mercy of the waves to the far-flung islands of the Pacific? Or were they intrepid seafarers whose exploratory voyages covered much of the great ocean on seaworthy canoes capable of being sailed against the wind? This book addresses these questions in one of the most thorough discussions of Austronesian sailing canoes ever attempted…" Excerpted from the dust jacket.
