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The navigators : pathfinders of the Pacific. Sam Low, réal. Len Gochman, narrateur

Low, Sam Gochman, Len 2013

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  • Title:
    The navigators : pathfinders of the Pacific. Sam Low, réal. Len Gochman, narrateur
  • lds02: Films documentaires
    Océanie
    Polynésie
  • Author: Low, Sam;
    Gochman, Len
  • Publisher: Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, 2013
  • Subjects: Préhistoire -- Histoire -- DVD;
    Navigation -- Histoire -- DVD -- Polynésie;
    Bateaux préhistoriques -- DVD -- Polynésie;
    Polynésie -- Antiquités -- DVD;
    Films ethnographiques -- DVD -- Polynésie
  • Includes: Copyright : Sam Law, 1983
    Restauré et remasterisé en 2013
    Tournage : Satawei, Micronésie
  • lds04: Indiqué sur la jaquette : Over 1,000 years ago, thescattered islands of Polynesia were explored by an ancient seafaring people. Where did they come from ? How did they navigate across the vast Pacific Ocean to settle one-third of Earth's surface ? To find out, anthropologist Sam Low visited the tiny coral atoll of Satawal, in Micronesia's remote caroline Islands, to film Mau Piailug as he guides his canoe by using subtle signs in the waves, winds ans stars. In his lofty canoe house he teaches the intricacies of this ancient sea science in a ceremony called "unfolding the mat" by arranging 32 lumps of coral to represent the points of his "star compass." thor Heyerdahl thought Polynesia was settled from south America by voyagers whp drifted aboard primitive rafts like Kon Tiki, pushed along by prevalling winds and currents. But he was wrong, The Navigators follows archeologists working on the Tahitian island of Huahine, in Fiji and Hawaii as they prove that Polynesia's settlers forced their way against the winds and currents from Island Southeast Asia aboard large seaworthy double-hulled canoes. In a dramatic demonstration, Mau Piailug guides a replica of such a vessel, Hokule'a, from Hawaii to Tahiti-2500 miles across the ocean without benefit of sextant, compass or any other Western navigational instrument. The Navigators is the story of courageous seafarers who sailed across ten million square miles of empty ocean. On Satawal, we see how this ancient seafaring culture is being transfromed from a vital art to proud and sometimes wistful money.
  • Language: English;Hawaiian
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 1 DVD (58 min) : coul., n. et bl., son.
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