Voyaging
LibCat
Use LibCat, the library's catalog, to search for resources by Keyword, Title, or Author.
The ‘Browse By Subject’ search option (in the menu at the top of the LibCat page) can also be used to find materials about a specific subject and/or geographic location.
Below, find a few examples of subject headings that may relate to your research topic. You can copy and paste into the "Browse by Subject" option available in the menu bar at the top of LibCat. (Replace Place with a broad place description, e.g., Hawaiʻi, Oceania, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, etc.)
- Canoes and canoeing - Place
- Canoes and canoeing - Oceania
- Canoes and canoeing - Polynesia
- Canoes and canoeing - Micronesia
- Outrigger canoes - Place
- Navigation - Oceania
- Navigation - Place
- Pacific Ocean - Navigation
- Archaeoastronomy - Place
- Maritime anthropology - Place
- Seafaring life - Oceania
- Seafaring life - Place
- Oceania - Discovery and exploration
- Nautical astronomy
- Astronomy, Polynesian
- Astronomy, Micronesian
- Ocean and civilization
- Polynesia - Description and travel
- Melanesia - Description and travel
- Micronesia - Description and travel
- Ethnology - Polynesia
- Ethnology - Micronesia
- Ethnology - Melanesia
- Hōkūleʻa (Canoe)
- Navigation, Prehistoric - Place
Samples of Audiovisual Materials Online
- Moana: The Rising of the Sea by Vilsoni Hereniko
- Publication Date: 2010
- Papa Mau: The Wayfinder
- Publication Date: 2010
- Marshallese Traditional Knowledge: Sailing and Navigation by Alele Museum, U.S. National Park Service
- Publication Date: 2011
- Reading The Wind by Maura O'Connor (Writer/Producer), Brad Smith (Director/Editor)
- Publication Date: 1995
- Voyaging for Sustainability by Nainoa Thompson
- Publication Date: 1998
- Tahere Tikitiki: The Making of a Maori Canoe
- Publication Date: 1974
- Drua The Wave of Fire by Peter Rockford-Espiritu and Vilsoni Hereniko
- Publication Date: 2012
Samples of Books in Print
Traveling Prehistoric Seas: Critical Thinking on Ancient Transoceanic Voyages by Alice Beck Kehoe
Call Number: E109.P65 K45 2016
Publication Date: 2015
Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūleʻa, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance by Sam Low
Call Number: GN440.2 .H393 2013
Publication Date: 2013
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The Global Origins and Development of Seafaring by Atholl Anderson (Editor); James Barrett; Katie Boyle
Call Number: Coming soon!
Publication Date: 2010
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Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific by K. R. Howe
Call Number: GN670 .V35 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Chapter VII. Canoes and Navigation in The Rope of Tradition: Reflections of a Saipan Carolinian by Lino M. Olopai with Juliana Flinn
Call Number: DU567 .O46 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Te Moana Nui: Exploring Lost Isles of the South Pacific by Georgia Lee
Call Number: DU510.2 .L435 2001
Publication Date: 2001
The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity and History in Oceania by Paul D'Arcy
Call Number: DU28 .D37 2006
Publication Date: 2005
Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands: Studies in Continuity and Change by Richard Feinberg (Editor)
Call Number: GN662 .S43 1995
Publication Date: 1995
We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific by David Lewis; Derek Oulton (Editor)
Call Number: GN440 .L48 1994
Publication Date: 1994
Samples of eBooks
Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia by Ben R. Finney with contributions by Thomas A. Schroeder, Marlene Among, Dixon Stroup, Robert Worthington,; Richard Rhodes, Elisa Yadao, Nainoa Thompson, Chad Babayan, Tai Crouch, Paul Frost, Bernard J. Kilonsky
Call Number: GN670 .F56 1994
Publication Date: 1994
Available in print and online
Micronesian and Polynesian Voyaging: Three Readings by Bruce, Lesley Schattenburg, Patricia Beggerly, Patricia Price
Call Number: DU1 .H379 1976 no.1
Publication Date: 1976
Available in print and online
East Is a Big Bird: Navigation and Logic on Puluwat atoll by Thomas Gladwin
Call Number: GN440 .G55
Publication Date: 1995
Available in print and online
Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy by Helaine Selin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2000
Hawaiian Canoe-building Traditions by Naomi N. Y. Chun Publication Date: 1995