Ancient Hawaii
- Book Review,
by Herbert Kawainui Kane (Illustrator), Herb Kawainui Kane
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Joseph Kennedy review currently attached to Ancient Hawaii on Amazon.com web site. Another review is on www.hawaiibooks.com. A review is being sent to you by teacher Bill Taylor. Ancient Hawaii has also been reviewed by two Honolulu newspapers and a Hawaii Island newspaper.
Book Description
How ancient Polynesian explorers found the Hawaiian Islands, the most remote in Earth's largest sea; how they navigated, how they viewed themselves and their universe, and the arts, crafts, and values by which they survived and prospered without metals or the fuels and inventions believed necessary for life today.
About the Author
Herb Kawainui Kane (pronounced KAH-ney) is an artist-historian of Hawaii. Clients include many private collectors, The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture & the Arts, The National Park Service, National Geographic Magazine and other major publishers. He has designed stamps for the U.S. Postal Service and foreign philatelic agencies. He served as designer and first captain of the voyaging canoe replica Hokulea, which has logged more than 60,000 miles, navigated without instruments. Named a Living Treasure of Hawaii, he was a founding director of the Native Hawaiian Culture & Arts Program, and awarded the Charles Reed Bishop Medal from the Bishop Museum.
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