Samoa: Voices From The Va’a – The Birth Of A Voyaging Society

Samoa: Voices From The Va’a – The Birth Of A Voyaging Society   The Pacific Voyager’s Network – reviving traditional sailing and navigation   The knowledge of traditional navigation and boat-building among the wider community in the Pacific is disappearing fast as lifestyles, including modes of transport, change and modernise. In order to revive the lost art of traditional navigation for which the Pacific was famous, an informal pan-Pacific network of voyaging societies, involving...

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