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1) Moana
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
A mythic adventure set around 2,000 years ago across a series of islands in the South Pacific. The film follows the journey of a spirited teenager named Moana as she meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui, and together they traverse the open ocean, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some on endpapers) ; 24 cm
Description
For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. How did the earliest Polynesians find and colonize these far-flung islands? How did a people without writing or metal tools conquer the largest ocean in the world? For author Christina Thompson, this mystery is personal: her Maori husband and their sons descend directly from these...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
ix, 237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"The monumental statues of Easter Island, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island's barren landscape, have been a great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans. How could the ancient people who inhabited this tiny speck of land, the most remote in the vast expanse of the Pacific, have built such monumental works, and moved them from the quarry where they were carved to the coast? And if the island once boasted a culture...
4) Kon Tiki
Publisher
Janson
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 124 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On April 28, 1947, an expedition was led by Norwegian biologist Thor Heyerdahl. The journey by raft spanned 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean and was hailed as one of the most fantastic feats of daring and courage of its time. Heyerdahl and his crew duplicated the legendary voyage of Kon-Tiki, the mythical hero who led the settlement of the South Sea Islands by sailing on a balsa wood raft from Peru to the Polynesian islands.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Easter Island has mystified the world ever since the first Europeans arrived in 1722. How and why did the ancient islanders build and move nearly 900 giant statues, and how did they transform a presumed paradise into a treeless wasteland, bringing ruin upon their island and themselves? Nova explores controversial recent claims that challenge decades of previous thinking about the islanders.
6) Sea People
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (12 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out...
7) Kon-Tiki
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (96, 118 minutes) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea to settle on Polynesian islands. After gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long journey across eight thousand kilometers, all while the world was watching.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Plunge into the stunning beauty of an island paradise on a quest to find the perfect wave-riding experience. Nine-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater and Tahitian surfer Raimana Van Bastolaer and a group of friends seek out the best waves breaking on the reef at Tahiti's famed surf site Teahupo'o. Also explores the formation and behavior of waves, the volcanic shaping of the Polynesian Islands, the marine life of their surrounding coral reefs,...
9) Dawn raid
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Series
Formats
Description
"Sophia is like most girls in 1976 New Zealand. How is she going to earn enough money for those boots? Why does she have to give that speech at school? Who is she going to be friends with this year? It comes as a surprise to Sofia and her family when her big brother, Lenny, starst talking about protests, "overstayers," and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government. Inspired by the Black Panthers in America, a group has formed called the...
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