![]() ![]() Thompson, the editor of Harvard Review and author of one previous book on New Zealand, sets forth in this book not to so much answer this question, but look at how both European explorers and Polynesian historians and storytellers try to answer this question, and the tremendous difficulties presented by offering one true story. How did this culture of isolation come to be and survive so long is one of the fascinating questions about the area. were the only people to have ever lived there,” writes Christina Thompson in her remarkable book Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia. “For more than a thousand years, Polynesians occupied and until the arrival of explorers. ![]()
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