The voyage of building an outrigger canoe: The cordage that connects it all

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Summary: Learning-by-doing, a museum geographer sets out to build an outrigger canoe. The values of the voyaging canoe translate into how to live on small, isolated islands—and, perhaps, how all of us may live sustainably on Island Earth.