A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to

A novel about a great Polynesian voyaging canoe; "Takitumu"; and the people who sailed across Te Moana Nui a Kiva (the Pacific Ocean).

In the summer of 1985, a mostly Hawaiian crew set out aboard Hokule'a, a reconstructed ancient double canoe, to demonstrate what skeptics had steadfastly denied