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Peter Crawford |
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Author and Film Producer.
The world renown, Mr. Peter Crawford spent three years traveling
through the islands of Polynesia, researching for his book Nomads
of the Wind and producing the five-hour television series for
the world-renowned Natural History Unit of the BBC. Together,
the five films retraced the dramatic story of the Polynesian
people and the islands of the Pacific which they discovered
and settled. The series were first screened in 1994 in
the U.K. and throughout Europe, as well as in the USA by WNET
New York and the PBS network. While writing the book and
making the TV series, Peter and his wife Pat met and worked
with many of the pioneers in Polynesia studies and culture,
including the late Thor Heyerdahl and Bengt Danielsson
and other much-respected anthropologists, historians and experts
in the natural history of the Polynesian islands, such as Yosihiko
Sinoto of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii.
As guest lecturer, Peter will give talks about the ancient Polynesian
voyages of discovery and the nature of the islands those seafaring
pioneers encountered and then used to sustain their unique island
way of life. With extracts from his film series and pictures
from his book, Peter will describe how he and his film crew
turned back the clock to recreate the Polynesia of pre-European
contact. Ten years on, he will recall some of the
highlights of their three eventful and revealing years spent
producing Normads of the Wind.
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