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Derek Caelin pabaigė skaityti H.P. Lovecraft knygą At the mountains of madness

H.P. Lovecraft: At the mountains of madness

At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. …

Good.

Derek Caelin apžvelgė autoriaus Aldo Leopold knygą A Sand County Almanac

Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac (1969)

A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There is a 1949 non-fiction book by …

Exquisitely written.

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There is a sense of grief pervading the book. A beautiful thing has been lost, is being lost, will be lost, unless we change. We seem no closer to achieving this goal today than we were when this book was first published in 1948, scant years before the author died fighting a prarie fire.

Derek Caelin pabaigė skaityti Becky Chambers knygą The long way to a small, angry planet (Wayfarers, #1)

Becky Chambers: The long way to a small, angry planet (Paperback, 2015, Hodder & Stoughton)

When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, …

Still great

Derek Caelin pabaigė skaityti Donella H. Meadows knygą Limits to Growth

Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows: Limits to Growth (2004, Chelsea Green)

Įvertinimų nėra

fantastic.

Derek Caelin apžvelgė autoriaus Christina Thompson knygą Sea People

Christina Thompson: Sea People (Hardcover, 2019, Harper)

A history of evolving understanding

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I don't think I've ever read a book about the history of trying to answer a question. Christina Thompson looks in to all the different ways people throughout time have tried to understand the origins of the Polynesian people who live in the Pacific. The book covers legends, ethnographic research, archeology, linguistic research, carbon dating, geneology, and other methods. My favorite chapters were about people in the 1960s-70s trying to recreate old sailing vessels and navigating using a blend of ancient and modern navigational methods.

Derek Caelin pabaigė skaityti Christina Thompson knygą Sea People

Excellent book.

Derek Caelin pakomentavo autoriaus Christina Thompson knygą Sea People

There's a chapter dedicated to the efforts in the 1960s-70s to recreate old style canoes and use traditional navigation practices to get from Hawaii to Tahiti, as a way to demonstrate the possibility of people thousands of years ago crossing a massive ocean without GPS, maps, sextants, and other modern instruments.

I'm reminded of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, in which Sisko encounters the design for an old space craft and wants to prove the plausibiltiy that ancient Bajorans could have travelled far across space by using the recreated ship to travel to Cardassia. I wonder if the writers were inspired by the story of the Polynesiai Voyaging Society.

There's a chapter dedicated to the efforts in the 1960s-70s to recreate old style canoes and use traditional navigation practices to get from Hawaii to Tahiti, as a way to demonstrate the possibility of people thousands of years ago crossing a massive ocean without GPS, maps, sextants, and other modern instruments.

I'm reminded of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, in which Sisko encounters the design for an old space craft and wants to prove the plausibiltiy that ancient Bajorans could have travelled far across space by using the recreated ship to travel to Cardassia. I wonder if the writers were inspired by the story of the Polynesiai Voyaging Society.