Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Harvard Review editor Christina Thompson, however, treads lightly on this theme, preferring instead to dwell in the optimistic and romantic idea of cultures meeting and melding. Worse, however, is the destruction wrought, both purposefully and accidentally, by the arrival of humans to already peopled lands. The first people to arrive and settle in the many islands that lay in the middle of the Pacific Ocean - the largest watery basin on earth - were certainly harmful to the ecology of those places, where species of both flora and fauna went extinct quite quickly after human settlement. But the results of our shared explorations have often been destructive. Humans are curious creatures, seekers of new lands and new knowledge. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sea People Subtitle The Puzzle of Polynesia Author Christina Thompson
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