Canoes of Oceania

Alfred C. Haddon

the classic last word on all things nautical in pre-contact Oceania (Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia) originally published in 1932 by the Bishhop Museum, Honolulu written by the eminent Dr Alfred C. Haddon of the British Museum, Cambridge and his distinguished co-author Dr James Hornell of the Dominion Museum, Aukland. a necessary reference for a wide and diverse range of people: yacht designers, sailors, watersports coaches, surfers, outrigger canoeists, anthropologists, historians, boat manufacturers, ethnographers, Oceanic island cultural and independence movements, 'tiki bar' interior decorators ...... many of the items described in the text no longer exist, e.g. all items listed as from the Museum for Volkerfunde, Germany were sadly destroyed by Allied bombing The text is very difficult to read even for native-fluent, literate English-speaking...