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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,195 ratings — published 2019
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,071 ratings — published 1948
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.57 — 6,033 ratings — published 1846
Call It Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,616 ratings — published 1940
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.20 — 140,372 ratings — published 2003
Hawaii (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,549 ratings — published 1959
The Whale Rider (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,440 ratings — published 1987
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,452 ratings — published 1957
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.46 — 20,274 ratings — published 2024
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,038 ratings — published 2015
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America's First Imperial Adventure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,283 ratings — published 2011
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,070 ratings — published 1938
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,493 ratings — published 2002
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,202 ratings — published 1928
The Wayfinder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,109 ratings — published 2025
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.15 — 42,779 ratings — published 2024
Tales of Polynesia: Folktales from Hawai'i, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.71 — 96 ratings — published
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.53 — 414 ratings — published
Something in the Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.55 — 233,284 ratings — published 2018
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,196,141 ratings — published 1954
Hotel Honolulu (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.46 — 2,649 ratings — published 2001
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,673 ratings — published 1992
The Descendants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,261 ratings — published 2007
Unfamiliar Fishes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.64 — 15,479 ratings — published 2011
The Penguin History of New Zealand (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,401 ratings — published 2003
Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey through Polynesia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.32 — 19 ratings — published 1994
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.13 — 442 ratings — published 2004
Tiare in Bloom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.00 — 415 ratings — published 2006
The Castaways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,481 ratings — published 2021
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (CBC Massey Lecture)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,184 ratings — published 2009
Once Were Warriors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,854 ratings — published 1990
Song of the Exile (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,826 ratings — published 1999
Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,670 ratings — published 2008
Ohana Means Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.12 — 986 ratings — published 2020
On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.07 — 87 ratings — published 2000
In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific after Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.24 — 25 ratings — published 1995
The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,292 ratings — published 2017
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,130 ratings — published 1847
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 456,993 ratings — published 1997
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.88 — 124,911 ratings — published 2013
The Bounty Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,339 ratings — published 1790
Shark Dialogues (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,011 ratings — published 1994
Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.80 — 825 ratings — published 1968
Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,350 ratings — published 2002
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.01 — 267,510 ratings — published 2004
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,641 ratings — published 2004
We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific (Second Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.41 — 145 ratings — published 1972
Where We Once Belonged (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.66 — 632 ratings — published 1996
Beached in Bali (Island Escapes #4)
by (shelved 1 time as polynesia)
avg rating 4.51 — 63 ratings — published
Commune: Chasing a Utopian Dream in Aotearoa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polynesia)
avg rating 4.24 — 34 ratings — published
“The only place among the southern islands where a ship can put in and get what it wants in comfort is where the Gospel has been sent to. For my part, I don't know and I don't care what the Gospel does to them, but I know that when any o' the islands chance to get it, trade goes smooth and easy.”
― The Coral Island
― The Coral Island
“There is a reason the remote Pacific was the last place on Earth to be settled by humans: it was the most difficult, more daunting even than the deserts or the ice.”
― Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
― Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
