Poignant tells of the Polynesians, who lived in a well-ordered society under a hierarchy of priests and developed a sophisticated pantheon which yet reflected their characters as seafarers who adventured over great distances in their elaborate outrigger canoes; of the Micronesians and the wonderful tales which show the victory of man over a precarious existence; of Melanesia, an area of great contrasts both in the beliefs which found expression and the arts which gave them form; of Australia's aborigines, apparently simple tribes living at the dictates of place and season who nourished a system of myths surprising in its rich imagination and the range of its thought.
Author: Roslyn Poignant
Title: Oceanic Mythology
Edition: No edition remarks
Published: London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967
Physical description: Hardcover; Quarto; 141p
Condition: Dust jacket in very good condition with edge wear. Boards and spine clean and bright with some bumping to corners. Binding tight and square. Pages clear.
Comments: Beautiful copy.
