Navigation: Kupe & Cook

An Ocean in a Mind and a Mind on an Ocean

Navigation: Kupe & Cook
Kingsley Smith
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Hardback
h230 x 153mm - 284pg
5 Mar 2022 NZ
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9780473509378
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In Navigation: Kupe & Cook, Kingsley Smith traces the beginnings of travel by boat as man migrated out of Africa and arrived in Sahul: Australia-New Guinea, 50,000 years ago. He discusses the role of navigation in Literary societies, up to the voyages of Captain James Cook, and in Orality societies, especially those in Polynesia up to the time when Kupe made his voyage to Aotearoa. The genetic origins of the Taiwanese are revealed prior to their south-easterly migration into the Pacific. The skills developed navigating along major rivers aided the development of oceanic voyaging. Navigation also demands communication, writing and memory. Writing allowed the production of the earliest navigation books and maps in Literary societies and the materials and instruments for early navigation systems. The instruments used by Cook enabled precise latitude and longitude navigation, particularly the accurate chronometer. Without writing, the Orality societies developed intricate methods to aid memories of their navigation systems. Two Pacific navigation systems using different techniques are revealed, one is the oldest in the Pacific, the Vaeakau-Taumako system, the other is the Tahitian system, which uniquely allows latitude and longitude navigation using Rua and Ana stars and the Pou pillar of navigation.
"An impressive and valuable contribution to an important area of maritime studies. " - JOAN DRUETT, author of "Tupaia: Captain Cook' s Polynesian Navigator"
Originally from Oamaru, now living in Te Puke, New Zealand, Kingsley Smith completed a B. Ag. Sci at Lincoln University in 1963 and was employed by Lincoln for two years before completing a PhD in Poultry Science at Sydney University. After two years as a research scientist at the University of Manitoba and the University of Missouri he returned to New Zealand as a scientist at the Massey University Poultry Research Centre. In 1980 he took up a post at the Scottish Rural College (formerly Scottish Agricultural College) until 2001. There he specialised in physiology, breeding and genetics. Now in retirement back in New Zealand he has written books on the histories of poultry breeding companies.
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ISBN-13: 9780473509378
Published: 5 Mar 2022
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Mary Egan Publishing
Publisher: Mary Egan Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 230mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 284

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