Fishing for Islands: Traditional Boats and Seafarers of the Pacific John Nicholson
Fishing for Islands: Traditional Boats and Seafarers of the Pacific John Nicholson front cover used secondhand nonfiction book about Children's Nonfiction - History, Ships & Boats
Fishing for Islands: Traditional Boats and Seafarers of the Pacific John Nicholson front cover used secondhand nonfiction book about Children's Nonfiction - History, Ships & Boats

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Fishing for Islands: Traditional Boats and Seafarers of the Pacific

Author: John Nicholson
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Book Title
Fishing for Islands: Traditional Boats and Seafarers of the Pacific
Author
John Nicholson
Book Condition
GOOD - EX-LIBRARY -covered with adhesive plastic
ISBN
9781864485905
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year Published
1999
Fishing for Islands celebrates the traditional boats of South-east Asia and the Pacific Islands, and shows how they were made, using bamboo, timber, vines, coconut fibre, and so on. It also traces the movement of Melanesian and Polynesian people, beginning with short island-hops in bark or reed canoes and gradually extending out into the vastness of the Pacific, navigating by memory and the stars. This is a John Nicholson classic: a superbly illustrated, down-to-earth and very personal angle on history, informed by a passion for the things that people design and make.

Fishing for Islands celebrates the traditional boats of South-east Asia and the Pacific Islands, and shows how they were made, using bamboo, timber, vines, coconut fibre, and so on. It also traces the movement of Melanesian and Polynesian people, beginning with short island-hops in bark or reed canoes and gradually extending out into the vastness of the Pacific, navigating by memory and the stars.

This is a John Nicholson classic: a superbly illustrated, down-to-earth and very personal angle on history, informed by a passion for the things that people design and make.

Fishing for Islands celebrates the traditional boats of South-east Asia and the Pacific Islands, and shows how they were made, using bamboo, timber, vines, coconut fibre, and so on. It also traces the movement of Melanesian and Polynesian people, beginning with short island-hops in bark or reed canoes and gradually extending out into the vastness of the Pacific, navigating by memory and the stars.

This is a John Nicholson classic: a superbly illustrated, down-to-earth and very personal angle on history, informed by a passion for the things that people design and make.