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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,003 ratings — published 2019
Kon-Tiki (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,816 ratings — published 1948
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,243 ratings — published 1846
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.20 — 143,667 ratings — published 2003
Call It Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,900 ratings — published 1940
The Wayfinder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,015 ratings — published 2025
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.46 — 26,525 ratings — published 2024
Hawaii (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.22 — 82,588 ratings — published 1959
The Whale Rider (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.85 — 13,158 ratings — published 1987
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,488 ratings — published 1957
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,169 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 — 1,324 ratings — published 2011
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,133 ratings — published 1938
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,692 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 — 3,274 ratings — published 1928
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.12 — 53,807 ratings — published 2024
Tales of Polynesia: Folktales from Hawai'i, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.65 — 112 ratings — published
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.53 — 439 ratings — published
Something in the Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.54 — 246,652 ratings — published 2018
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,313,664 ratings — published 1954
Hotel Honolulu (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.46 — 2,700 ratings — published 2001
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,804 ratings — published 1992
The Descendants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,577 ratings — published 2007
Unfamiliar Fishes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.65 — 15,789 ratings — published 2011
Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island – A Provocative Archaeological Study of Colonial Legacy, Indigenous Reclamation, and the Collapse Myth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.64 — 391 ratings — published
The Penguin History of New Zealand (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,529 ratings — published 2003
I Am Not Your Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.50 — 210 ratings — published 2022
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 4.14 — 484 ratings — published 2004
Tiare in Bloom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.03 — 433 ratings — published 2006
The Castaways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.93 — 29,455 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 — 4,368 ratings — published 2009
Once Were Warriors (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,029 ratings — published 1990
Song of the Exile (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,868 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 — 1,747 ratings — published 2008
ʻOhana Means Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,017 ratings — published 2020
Hawaiian Mythology (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.85 — 251 ratings — published 1940
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 4.09 — 90 ratings — published 2000
The Hidden Heart (Victorian Hearts, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,743 ratings — published 1986
In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific after Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.19 — 27 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 — 1,350 ratings — published 2017
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,171 ratings — published 1847
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 472,654 ratings — published 1997
The Signature of All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.88 — 127,750 ratings — published 2013
The Bounty Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,370 ratings — published 1790
Shark Dialogues (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,109 ratings — published 1994
Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.80 — 876 ratings — published 1968
The Fatal Impact (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.99 — 256 ratings — published 1966
Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polynesia)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,397 ratings — published 2002
“That’s what I like about Polynesians. They wear their hearts on their sleeve knowing that, for adults, there are better games to play than hiding their emotions from each other”
― Why Not?: The island where happiness starts with a question
― Why Not?: The island where happiness starts with a question
“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
