Langdon, Robert

The lost caravel by Robert Langdon( Book )
10 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 173 libraries worldwide

The language of Easter Island : its development and eastern Polynesian relationships by Robert Langdon( Book )
8 editions published in 1983 in English and held by 172 libraries worldwide

The lost caravel re-explored by Robert Langdon( Book )
10 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 106 libraries worldwide
"It is the year 1526. The four ships of the Loaisa expedition have just entered the Pacific from the Strait of Magellan on their way to the East Indies for a cargo of spices. A storm blows up. The ships are separated. One, the caravel San Lesmes with 50 or so men on board is never seen again ... The new book traces the crew of the San Lesmes and their descendants to various atolls of the Tuamotu Archipelago, to the Society and Austral Islands -- even to distant Easter Island and New Zealand. It argues that the last prehistoric settlement of New Zealand was made when some of the San lesmes crew came upon the North Island in trying to return to Spain from the vicinity of Tahiti by sailing along the latitude of the Cape of Good Hope. It claims that many Maori of today are descended from them. The book tells also how a number of present-day Easter islanders with no known non-Easter Island ancestors have been found to be carriers of certain genes that are peculiar to Europeans and especially common among Basques. In a nutshell, The Lost Caravel Re-explored throws unexpected new light on the prehistory of several widely separated Polynesian islands and challenges many long held views on that subject ..."--Back cover

American whalers and traders in the Pacific : a guide to records on microfilm by Robert Langdon( Book )
3 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 84 libraries worldwide

Island of love by Robert Langdon( Book )
7 editions published between 1959 and 1960 in English and held by 71 libraries worldwide

Kon-Tiki revisited by Robert Langdon( Book )
5 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in English and held by 68 libraries worldwide
In 1526, ships of a Spanish expedition entered the Pacific from the Straits of Magellan. The San Lesmes, a caravel of eighty tonnes with a crew of fifty-three, was separated from the fleet by a storm and never seen again. Four centuries later, in 1929, four iron cannons were found on the reef of the Amanu atoll, French Polynesia. The find created little interest until 1975, when Robert Langdon argues in The lost caravel that the cannons were from the San Lesmes, the crew had survived and intermarried, and that vital aspects of the wider development of Pacific Island communities needed to be readdressed. In Kon-Tiki revisited Langdon makes his final outstanding contribution to our knowledge of Polynesian origins

Thar she went : an interim index to the Pacific ports and islands visited by American whalers and traders in the 19th century, being a supplement to "American whalers and traders in the Pacific, a guide to records on microfilm" ( Book )
1 edition published in 1979 in English and held by 47 libraries worldwide

Tahiti and the Society Islands : shipping arrivals and departures, 1767 to 1852 by Rhys Richards( Book )
4 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 32 libraries worldwide

The P.M.B. book of Pacific indexes ( Book )
1 edition published in 1988 in English and held by 23 libraries worldwide

The Catholic Church in the Western Pacific : a guide to records on microfilm ( Book )
1 edition published in 1986 in English and held by 22 libraries worldwide