The Great Canoes in the sky: Starlore and Astronomy of the South Pacific [Audiobook] download free by Stephen Robert Chadwick
- Listen audiobook: The Great Canoes in the sky: Starlore and Astronomy of the South Pacific
- Author: Stephen Robert Chadwick
- Release date: 2016/5/20
- Publisher: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9783319226224
- Rating: 9.41 of 10
- Votes: 851
- Review by: Evelynn Schmitz
- Review rating: 8.58 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/21
- Duration: 2H57M44S in 256 kbps (46.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-31
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, FLAC, Musepack, WMA, WAV, MPEG4, MPEG-4 SLS (compression TZO, AZW4, EML, TAR.Z, RAR, 7-ZIP, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 233
- Includes a PDF summary of 20 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 16M19S (4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Presenting spectacular photographs of astronomical objects of the southern sky, all taken by author Stephen Chadwick, this book explores what peoples of the South Pacific see when they look up at the heavens and what they have done with this knowledge. From wives killing brothers to emus rising out of the desert and great canoes in the sky, this book offers the perfect blend of science, tradition and mythology to bring to life the most famous sights in the heavens above the southern hemisphere. The authors place this starlore in the context of contemporary understandings of astronomy. The night sky of southern societies is as rich in culture as it is in stars. Stories, myths and legends based on constellations, heavenly bodies and other night sky phenomena have played a fundamental role in shaping the culture of pre-modern civilizations throughout the world. Such starlore continues to influence societies throughout the Pacific to this day, with cultures throughout the region - from Australia and New Zealand in the south to New Guinea and Micronesia in the north - using traditional cosmology as a means of interpreting various aspects of everyday life.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Folklore, Myths & Legends, Popular Astronomy & Space, Astronomy, Space & Time, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History Of Science
- Download servers: Google Drive, Mediafire, FreakShare, Uploaded, BitShare, Gett, MEGA, SendSpace, Cozy, FileServe. Compressed in TZO, AZW4, EML, TAR.Z, RAR, 7-ZIP, ZIP
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 91.40 USD
- Dimensions: 210x279x20.32mm
- Weight: 8,767g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Cham, Switzerland
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