Sea People tells the story of a unique geographic, cultural, and intellectual voyage across water and through time. With a flair for making the past live again, Christina Thompson give us a comprehensive story of Polynesia and of those who have studied it. “The ten-million square miles known as Polynesia was the last area to be settled by humans and is still the least understood chapter in history.
Filled with teeming grace and terrible power, her book is a vibrant and revealing new account of the watery part of our world.” - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan, or the Whale and The Sea Inside Christina Thompson’s wonderfully researched and beautifully written narrative brings these two stories together, gloriously and excitingly. “To those of the western hemisphere, the Pacific represents a vast unknown, almost beyond our imagining for its Polynesian island peoples, this fluid, shifting place is home. In her capable hands this saga of Polynesia’s scattered islands becomes a comprehensive and dramatic history of our planet and the ways its peoples, creatures, vegetation, land forms, and waters interacted over the centuries and eons since the world began.” - Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life “I have rarely read so exciting and companionable a narrative as Christina Thompson’s Sea People. It’s a compelling story, beautifully told, the best exploration narrative I’ve read in years.” - Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Energy: A Human History and The Making of the Atomic Bomb “Who hasn’t stayed up late reading South Sea tales? Sea People is a South Sea tale to top them all-the exploration and settlement of the vast Pacific Ocean by stone-age Polynesians-and every word is true.
Christina Thompson’s gorgeous writing arises from a deep well of research and succeeds in conjuring a lost world.” - Dava Sobel, author of Longitude and The Glass Universe I found Sea People the most intelligent, empathic, engaging, wide-ranging, informative, and authoritative treatment of Polynesian mysteries that I have ever read.
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