Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the PacificWinner of the 2020 Australian Prime Ministers Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history Wonderfully researched and beautifully written Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan Succeeds in conjuring a lost world Dava Sobel, author of Longitude For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island.