Mystery of the Pacific Ocean

The Europeans' "discovery" of the Pacific Island began in the 16th century as they groped their way eastward from around the Cape of Good Hope, or westward from around Cape Horn.


But what they found were island cultures that had existed for a long time, complete with royal hierarchies and elaborate ceremonies: complex societies with long histories.


Captain Cook was one of the first to wonder: just how did they get there? And when?

The story of the first settlers of the Pacific Islands has gradually emerged, thanks to the efforts of many archaeologists, agronomists, oceanographers and even linguists. And of many present day Polynesian people who are delving into their past and recording information for the future generations of island people.


In this blog I will record what has been learned about these early explorers whom we now know began an extraordinary journey from Southern China, back in the Stone Age.


It's a story that has to be told.

Friday, January 11, 2013

FORTHCOMING BOOK

For some time now I have been working on a story about what it was like to be part of the great, slow migration of the Austronesian people as as they pushed out into the unexplored, and empty  Pacific Ocean.

They were the first humans to get there.

Based on my research of this subject, I have written a story about a Stone Age  family who had to take part in an adventurous voyage of discovery. It's fiction, but the events could have happened. The story is set in 1600 BC and shows what had to be done to undertake such a voyage into the unknown, and the dangers of what perhaps must have happened to some of the explorers. The story will give one an idea of what it must have been like on such an adventure.

The book is titled:  'TOWARDS  RAHITI' , and I will later announce when the book is published.
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