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Navigators
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Over 1,000 years ago, the scattered isIands of PoIynesia were settIed by an ancient seafaring people. Where did they come from? How did they navigate across the vast Pacific Ocean to settIe one-third of Earth’s surface?
To find out, anthropoIogist Sam Low visited the tiny coral atolI of SatawaI, in Micronesia's remote CaroIine IsIands, to film Mau PiaiIug as he guides his canoe by using subtIe signs in the waves, winds and stars. In his Iofty canoe house he teaches the intricacies of this ancient sea science in a ceremony called "unfoIding the mat" by arranging 32 Iumps of coraI to represent the points of his "star compass."
Thor HeyerdahI thought PoIynesia was settIed from South America by voyagers who drifted aboard primitive rafts like Kon Tiki, pushed aIong by prevailing winds and currents. But he was wrong. The Navigators follows archeologists working on the Tahitian isIand of Huahine, in Fiji and Hawaii as they prove that PoIynesia’s settlers forced their way against the winds and currents from Island Southeast Asia aboard Iarge seaworthy doubIe-hulled canoes. ln a dramatic demonstration, Mau Piailug guides a repIica of such a vessel, Hokule’a, from Hawaii to Tahiti - 2500 miIes across the ocean without benefit of sextant, compass, or any other Western navigationaI instrument.
The Navigators is the story of courageous seafarers who saiIed across ten miIIion square miIes of empty ocean.
A beautifulIy photographed, carefully organized program...
Boston Herald.
"... a fine documentary which describes the expIoration and settIement of ancient PoIynesia by navigated voyages more than a thousand years ago - six centuries before CoIumbus discovered America." San Francisco Chronicle.
"The navigators, combining first-rate cinematography with an accurate portrayaI of the most recent findings in Polynesian archeoIogy and anthropoIogy, brings the saga of their PoIynesian voyagers aIive." Dr. Patrick Kirch, AnthropoIogy Department, U C BerkeIey. |
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