Building a Longboat: An Essay on the Culture and History of a Bornean People

by Ida Nicolaisen, Tinna Damgard-Sorensen

The craftsmanship of longboat-building is not something we can draw on today, so when the Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde wanted to look into this ancient skill, they needed to track down people who still had the tradition of boat-building in their culture. This book looks at the boat-building and culture of the Punan Bah people of Borneo and then puts the longboat in its wider cultural-historical perspective.

147 pages, Hardcover

First published December 30, 1991

Reviews

[Simon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but quite a technical read in places