Voyagers of the Pacific
Chapter 1
Story Time, Episode 10. Goes with Story of the World, Volume 2, chapter 8, section 2, and chapter 10. About 4 minutes. Voices were made with ElevenLabs. The music box is played live by your browser. Turn Voices off to read the captions together at your own pace; each line still moves on by itself.
Where the facts come from
- Goes with Susan Wise Bauer, The Story of the World, Volume 2: The Middle Ages (Peace Hill Press), chapter 8, section 2, and chapter 10. The story here is our own telling.
- When people first reached New Zealand (about AD 1250–1300, later than the AD 800 older books give): Janet M. Wilmshurst and others, "High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (2011): 1815–1820.
- Double canoes and wayfinding by stars, swells, clouds, and birds, and the moa: Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, entries on Polynesian migrations, canoe navigation, and moa.
- Scripture: Psalm 139:9–10, King James Version.
- Made with: hand-written JavaScript on an HTML canvas; voices from ElevenLabs, including real child-character voices for the kids; music played live by the browser's Web Audio.