Jeff Evans

Reawakened

Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-Nui-A-Kiwa

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Hawaii Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 150mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780824893590
• ISBN-10: 082489359X
• Artikelnr.: 62607854

Autorenporträt

Jeff Evans is a writer and photographer based in Auckland. He has written several books relating to waka, including Ngā Waka o Neherā, Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand and Waka Taua: The Maori War Canoe. Between them, these books recall Māori migration traditions, describe navigation skills used by Māori to voyage between the islands in the central Pacific and New Zealand, and introduce the reader to waka taua. Jeff's most recent book was Heke-nukumai-nga-iwi Busby: Not Here by Chance (Huia, 2015). In 2020 he was awarded a summer residency at the Michael King Writer's Centre to work on this book.