- Paperback: 215 pages
- Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press,U.S. (1 Dec 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0932813364
- ISBN-13: 978-0932813367
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,732,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Takes us to the south sea islands of Tonga, Rarotonga, Samoa and Fiji to investigate the megalithic ruins on these beautiful islands. With old drawings, photos and maps, Childress elaborates on the great empire of the Polynesians, centred on Tonga. Chapters in this books are on the Lost City of Mu'a and its many megalithic pyramids, the Ha'amonga Trilithon and ancient -Polynesian astronomy, Samoa and the search for the lost land of Havaiiki, Fiji and its wars with Tonga, Rarotonga's megalithic road, Polynesian cosmology, and a chapter on the predicted re-emergence of the ancient land of Mu. Material on Egyptians in the Pacific, past and future earth changes, the fortified moat around Mu'a, lost roads, and more.
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3.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Insight into early Polynesian Culture, 27 July 1999
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This review is from: Ancient Tonga and the Lost City of Mu'a: Including Samoa, Fiji and Raratonga (Lost Cities of the Pacific Series) (Paperback)
This book takes the reader into the maritime realm of the first seafarers of the Pacific Ocean. Most fascinating of the ancient cith of Mu where the first pan-Pacific maritime university trained sailing fleets to discover and chart this very ancient part of the world. Delves a little bit into possible ties with Lemuria and other lost lands of the Pacific.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Links to Polynesian Presence in Americas, 18 Sep 2000
By George Erikson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ancient Tonga and the Lost City of Mu'a: Including Samoa, Fiji and Raratonga (Lost Cities of the Pacific Series) (Paperback)
Childress has uncovered a deep Pacific base for ancient navigators,who were much more likely the ancestors of American megalithic
builders than the posited but unlikely survivors of a Berengia
migration to the New World -- even though academic texts still fondly
describe ice-age hunters following wandering caribou over thousands of
miles of thick icesheets where neither the hunters nor the hunted
would have had anything to eat.
2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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interesting, but no classic, 13 July 2000
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This review is from: Ancient Tonga and the Lost City of Mu'a: Including Samoa, Fiji and Raratonga (Lost Cities of the Pacific Series) (Paperback)
Good compilation of information (as you can probably judge from the 5-page bibliography), but not much of a leisurely read. Discusses possible origin of the polynesians, ancient ruins found on the said islands, as well as legends and artifacts passed on through generations. The author manages to touch alot of topics, but as a general interest book, it just doesn't work.
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