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KENT BUSH

[In "American Indians in the Pacific"] Heyerdahl marshals exceedingly convincing visual evidence of pre-Columbian American Indian influences in the Pacific. In no other single book can there be found an equally rich collection of that data—scientific, cultural, historical—so necessary for the developement of a reasoned theory of the colonization of Polynesia. Without taking into account these facts and their interpretation—many of them published for the first time in this volume—no scholar can speak with accuracy on the problem. This book will be required reading for all students of American and Pacific culture, history, and pre-history.

Any scholar who necessarily deals with the findings in a dozen or more sciences will come under attack from the siege guns of specialization. The central question in evaluating an effort to synthesize broadly in any scholarly field is: has the factual evidence been handled with respect on its own merits and...

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1. Introduction
2. Alfred Stanford
3. Harry Gilroy
4. Roland Sawyer
5. Wendell C. Bennett
6. Kent Bush
7. The Times Literary Supplement
8. Glyn Daniel
9. John M. Connole
10. Philip Morrison
11. Christopher Wordsworth
12. The Times Literary Supplement
13. Geoffrey Bibby
14. Timothy Severin
15. Philip Snow
16. Frederick H. Guidry
17. Robert Trumbull
18. Adrienne Kaeppler
19. Jo-Ann D. Suleiman
20. Toba Korenblum
21. John Hemming
22. Copyright