1/4: Oceania now in a diplomatic battle between the #PRC and #AUKUS: 1/4: Nicholas Thomas, author, Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific; @MAACambridge.

Dec 11, 2022, 11:27 PM

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1/4: Oceania now in a diplomatic battle between the #PRC and #AUKUS: 1/4: Nicholas Thomas, author, Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific; @MAACambridge.

https://www.amazon.com/Voyagers-Settlement-Pacific-Nicholas-Thomas/dp/1541619838


The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean?