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- PublisherPacific Publications
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0858070219
- ISBN 13 9780858070219
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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The Lost Caravel
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Pacific Publications
(1975)
ISBN 10: 0858070219
ISBN 13: 9780858070219
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 368 pages. Dj chipped and worn. Spine fadedOn 26 May 1526, fo ur Spanish ships under the command of Garcia Jofre de Loaisa pass ed intio the Pacific from the Strait of Magellan bound for the sp ice-rich East Indies. Six days later they were separated by a sto rm and one ship, the caravel San Lesmes, was never heard of again . Now, after a lapse of four and a half centuries, historian Robe rt Langdon has put forward the theory that the caravel was wrecke d on an atoll to the east of Tahiti, that the crew survived and i ntermarried with the local women, and that over the next 250 year s they and their descendants spread to many Polynesian islands. H e claims that the castaways established Hispano-Polynesian dynast ies, that they grafted elements of Iberian culture onto the exist ing Polynesian culture, and that much that has previously been at tributed to the genius of the Polynesians, was, in fact, derived from Europe. . Two of his most remarkable conclusions are that the mysterious inscribed tablets of Easter island owed their orig in to the castaways' writing system, and that the so-called fleet that has ling been thought to have carried the Maoris [sic] from eastern Polynesia to New Zealand about 1350 A.D., was, in fact a n expedition of sixteenth-century Spaniards trying to get home by way of the Cape of Good Hope! -- Book jacket. Seller Inventory # 3056c
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