Pacific wisdom
t’s an easy thing to view the saga of Polynesian navigation as a romantic epic coloured by time and meets Thor Heyerdahl. But as Jeff Evans quickly establishes in his new book, , the reality is as absorbing as the myth. Evans explores the lives of 10 men who share a distinctive individual honour – the title of Pwo, or master navigator, given to them by the teacher and “grandmaster navigator” Mau Piailug.
