We, the navigators : the ancient art of landfinding in the Pacific
The second edition of David Lewis' classic book on Pacific navigation promises to satisfy yet again scholars and seafarers alike - and all others who have marveled at the ability of island mariners to navigate hundreds of miles of open ocean without instruments. The new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during the past two decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation system in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean
Print Book, English, ©1994
University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, ©1994
Pasifika
xxi, 442 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780824815820, 0824815823
29466770
Foreword to the first edition / S.H. Riesenberg
1. Rediscovery of a Vanishing Art
2. Piecing the Mosaic
3. Voyaging Canoes
4. Steering by the Stars
5. Keeping Course by Sun, Swells, and Wind
6. Dead Reckoning
7. Orientation Concepts in Dead Reckoning
8. Island Blocks, Birds, and Clouds
9. Swell Patterns and Phosphorescence
10. Expanded Target Landfall in Practice
11. Position Fixing at Sea
12. Reasons for Voyaging
13. The Renaissance of Far Voyaging
14. The Long Seaways of Eastern Polynesia
Appendix I: Variations of Star Bearings with Latitude / V. Radhakrishnan
Appendix II: Directional Marks Ashore
Appendix III: Table of Tahitian Star Pillars and Islands
Locations of the Main Islands and Other Places