The Last Navigator: A Young Man, An Ancient Mariner, The Secrets of the Sea by Thomas, Steve

The Last Navigator: A Young Man, An Ancient Mariner, The Secrets of the Sea

As a young man piloting a small sailboat across the Pacific, Steve Thomas developed a fascination with...
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The Last Navigator: A Young Man, An Ancient Mariner, The Secrets of the Sea by Thomas, Steve

The Last Navigator: A Young Man, An Ancient Mariner, The Secrets of the Sea

€32,95

The Last Navigator: A Young Man, An Ancient Mariner, The Secrets of the Sea

€32,95
Author: Steve Thomas
Format: Paperback
Language: English
As a young man piloting a small sailboat across the Pacific, Steve Thomas developed a fascination with ancient methods of navigation. He learned of a seafaring culture which, 6,000 years ago, used arcane navigation arts to guide initiates unerringly across the Pacific with no compasses, no charts. By the time of Christ, these navigators had populated Oceania, nearly a quarter of the Earth's surface. Thomas ventured to the tiny coral atolls of Micronesia in search of these mysteries, this ancient language of the sea. There he found the last navigator, Mau Piailug. One of the few surviving palu, he belongs to a dying breed who used only natural signs - stars, waves, birds - to guide their sailing canoes across thousands of miles of open ocean. Thomas and Piailug voyage together on the frail ship of human memory in an attempt to preserve for future generations an ancient, mysterious, and beautiful kinship with the sea before it is lost forever. Theirs is an unforgettable journey.

Author: Steve Thomas
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Published: 04/20/2009
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781439233498

About the Author
Emmy Award-winning Steve Thomas is the host of Renovation Nation on Discovery's Planet Green. Before that he hosted This Old House, for 14 years. Beginning in 1977, Steve logged many blue-water miles sailing a 43-foot wooden sloop from England to San Francisco via the Panama Canal, Galapagos, Marquesas and Hawaii. In the early 1980s, he journeyed to the remote Micronesian island of Satawal to learn the ancient technique of star path navigation under the master navigator Mau Piailug. Steve's research resulted in this book, The Last Navigator, published in 1987 and a documentary for PBS's Adventure series. Steve received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Steve has renovated a number of old houses, including the 1836 Colonial revival in which he currently resides with his wife and son in a seaport town north of Boston.


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