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The Last Navigator
The Last Navigator
Author: Stephen D. Thomas
Nonfiction account of a young American man's sojourn in the South Pacific, on the Micronesian island of Satawal in the Caroline archipelago, studying traditional navigation with Mau Piailug, the last of the palus. It was Piailug who navigated a Polynesian vessel from Hawaii to Tahiti without compass or charts, as documented by a PBS film of the ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780345355041
ISBN-10: 0345355040
Publication Date: 10/12/1988
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Mau Piailug is the last navigator that teams up with the author and they navigate the world. Enjoy!


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