The Discovery of the Palau Islands
by Dr. Paul W. Dale
The people of Palau have lived on their collection of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean for hundreds of years, having arrived there from some unknown source. The natives have developed their own unique culture, language, body of knowledge, oral history, and myths devoid of any input from outside cultures. But, the August 1783 wreck of the English merchant ship Antelope on an outlying reef changed all that.
The Discovery of the Palau Islands is the account of the men of the Antelope, what they saw, heard, and experienced while shipwrecked on the island. Theirs is the first and only description of this isolated culture before the discovery made them known to the European world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Paul W. Dale is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. His interest in the early exploration of the Pacific region has taken him to many of the Pacific islands. In the late 1970s, he served as Chief of Mental Health and Director of Medical Care Services for the U.N. Trust Territories, which included the islands of Palau. Presently, he is Clinical Associate Professor, emeritus, at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine.
Dr. Dale is the author of Seventy North to Fifty South, The Last Voyage of Captain Cook, and The Tonga Book, a story of early Tongan culture.
(2004, paperback, 160 pages)
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days.
The people of Palau have lived on their collection of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean for hundreds of years, having arrived there from some unknown source. The natives have developed their own unique culture, language, body of knowledge, oral history, and myths devoid of any input from outside cultures. But, the August 1783 wreck of the English merchant ship Antelope on an outlying reef changed all that.
The Discovery of the Palau Islands is the account of the men of the Antelope, what they saw, heard, and experienced while shipwrecked on the island. Theirs is the first and only description of this isolated culture before the discovery made them known to the European world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Paul W. Dale is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. His interest in the early exploration of the Pacific region has taken him to many of the Pacific islands. In the late 1970s, he served as Chief of Mental Health and Director of Medical Care Services for the U.N. Trust Territories, which included the islands of Palau. Presently, he is Clinical Associate Professor, emeritus, at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine.
Dr. Dale is the author of Seventy North to Fifty South, The Last Voyage of Captain Cook, and The Tonga Book, a story of early Tongan culture.
(2004, paperback, 160 pages)
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days.
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