Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific
	Quantity in Basket: none Code: ISBN-9780824832193 Price: $60.00 Author: Patrick D Nunn Country: Pacific Islands Date Published: 2008 Publisher: University Hawaii Press Pages: 287 Hardback: Yes Paperback: No Illustrated: Yes Colour: Yes Index: Yes Glossary: Yes
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A succinct account is given of human settlement of the region and the establishment of cultural contexts for the observation of occasional catastrophic earth-surface changes and their encryption in folklore. The author also addresses the persistent myths of a “sunken continent” in the Pacific, which became widespread after European arrival and were subsequently incorporated into new age and pseudoscience explanations of our planet and its inhabitants. Finally, he presents original data and research on island disappearances witnessed by humans, recorded in oral and written traditions, and judged by geoscience to be authentic. Examples are drawn from throughout the Pacific, showing that not only have islands collapsed, and even vanished, within the past few hundred years, but that they are also liable to do so in the future. 32 illus., 31 maps