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9 pages of highlighting
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Price: |
12.00 |
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Title: |
Hokule'a, The Way to Tahiti |
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ISBN: |
0-396-07719-6 |
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Author: |
Ben R. Finney
Illustrations by Richard Rhodes
Photographs by Francis Wandell & Ben R. Finney |
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Description: |
Hardcover (6x9), Dodd, Mead, 1979, FIRST PRINTING. 310 pages. Color and b/w photos, illustrations. |
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Condition: |
NINE PAGES OF YELLOW HIGHLIGHTING IN BEGINNING OF BOOK
Remainder clean, mild warp to front cover, moderate edge and corner wear, spine straight with tight hinge
but spine fabric wrinkled and slightly dipped in center, pull top spine,
dustjacket edge wear and tear, corner wear and tear, flaps intact but wrinkled. |
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Summary: |
"In 1973, Ben Finney and a group of Polynesian specialists and canoe enthusiasts formed the
Polynesian Voyaging Society to build a large voyaging canoe to attempt the Hawai'i - Tahiti round-trip
in order to test the feasibility of making long-distance, navigated voyages in a voyaging canoe
guided solely by traditional navigation. The canoe, christened Hokule'a,
which is Hawaiian for the bright star Arcturus that passes directly over the island of Hawai'i, was launched in l975...."
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