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The Pacific is a vast and magnificent ocean ? the World's largest and by far the most culturally vivid.
That cultural vivacity is wholly sourced in the canoe cultures of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia,
Particularly in the case of Polynesia, we have peoples who who not only discovered every inhabitable island but successfully established new cultural outposts on each ? and they became self-sustaining nation states ? 1,000-3,000 years and more before Europeans first ventured into this sizeable segment of the planet's surface.
That capacity of a culture to re-seed, adapt and grow to vigor from scattered small first-plantings is far from universal. Central to that success was, of course, the effectiveness of the canoe and the heroism of their viyaging navigators and crews.
The arts of the Pacific ? selected samplings of which were superbly and sensitively photographed by Brian Brake ? speak of the courage, skills and resourcefulness of the first peoples of Te Moana Nui a Kiwa.
So it is the context of this imagery that the "conversations" (as the passages of text are identified) invite respect and attentiveness.
James McNeish ? now Sir James McNeish ? is a New Zealand writer of eminence. David Simmons, a leading New Zealand ethnographer and highly respected author. All three were very much at their professional peak when they brought together this book in 1979 ? a time when Pacific ethnography was thriving and generative cultural revivals were strengthening.
This is, therefore, in important senses, a landmark publication.
It is also a beautiful and evocative work of art in its own right.
