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Smithsonian institution. War background studies volume no.15
Publisher
The Smithsonian institution
Pub. Date
1943
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English
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Smithsonian Institution
Pub. Date
1943
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English
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The exploits of the early Polynesians in discovering and populating, at one time or another, every habitable island in the Pacific mark them as the most daring deep-sea voyagers the world has ever known. In spite of having tools made of stone or shell only, they fashioned large double-keeled ships which they stocked, like arks, with food-plants and animals, and then transported themselves and their women into the unknown. True, there are islands at...
10) Peoples of India
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Publisher
The Smithsonian Institution
Pub. Date
1944
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English