Product Description

This is the definitive comprehensive work on the history, skills and traditions of the Hawaiian canoe from ancient voyaging craft through the evolution to the modern racing canoe. Numerous specially commissioned diagrams and illustrations, along with a wealth of photographs---many previously unpublished---will delight anyone with an interest in the maritime history of Hawaii. Starting at the time of Christ, Polynesians began probing the farthest inhabitable reaches of the Pacific. By 1200 A.D. they had settled remote Easter Island to the east, Hawaii to the north, and New Zealand to the south---in short, every habitable island in a sweep of blue roughly equal in size to the entire land mass of the Western hemisphere. They discovered the Pacific, where there were roughly two units of land for every thousand units of water. It would be centuries before western man would venture out of sight of land. Hawaii, land of the most geographically isolated culture on earth! , would be discovered and settled more than a thousand years before Captain Cook was born.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1431884 in Books
• Published on: 1993-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 220 pages

Customer Reviews

Hut Ho
I have not received the book yet but I had one when it was first printed but cannot find it now so I am getting another via Amazon.com.

I loved the first one and read it from cover to cover but after a few moves I missed placed it. I want another because it told stories of canoe building, paddling and the love and respect of this sport and canoe building. I recommend this book highly for the author, Tommy Holmes, would be very happy. Tommy is paddling his own canoe in heaven. Aloha bradah!

Mahalo Amazon.com and family I look forward to receiving my book soon!

Jeanne

Outstanding history of the outrigger canoe
This book is a must have if you are serious about outrigger canoes. Tommy Holmes, who is no longer with us, spent 25 years gathering the hands on experience as well as the facts about the outrigger canoe in its Hawaiian island creation. The book has wonderful pictures of both canoes and paddles, and delves into many facts including design, use, materials, paddling technique, etc. Overall it may be both the only one of its kind and certainly one the best in the catagory