Living Worlds
A double-hulled voyaging canoe with crab-claw sails of pandanus matting on the open ocean at dusk, voyagers keeping watch.

950–1350 · The Pacific, about 1000 to 1200 CE

Wayfinders

The stars are the map.

The law of Wayfinders

The stars are the map.

Without instruments, navigators read the stars, the swells and the birds, and sailed double-hulled canoes thousands of kilometres across open ocean to settle the islands of East Polynesia.

A woman voyager at the stern of a double-hulled canoe at dusk, reading the swell.

A life in Wayfinders · composite, based on the record

A voyager, thirty-two

She keeps the night watch with one hand on the lashed crossbeam, reading the swell. She will be the first to see the birds that mean land.

Meanwhile, in the same age

Worlds joined by sea and road

A double-hulled voyaging canoe with pandanus sails on the open Pacific at dusk.

Which world will you live in?