About the Author

Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Sam Low served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific from 1964 to 1966 and earned a Ph.D. degree from Harvard (in anthropology) in 1975. In 1983, after traveling throughout Polynesia, Sam produced his award winning film, The Navigators - Pathfinders of the Pacific, which told the story of the Polynesian settlement of the Pacific on PBS nationally and internationally on television venues throughout the world. He has sailed aboard Hokule'a on three voyages from 1999 to 2007. He is the author of Hawaiki Rising, Hokule'a, Nainoa Thompson and the Hawaiian Renaissance and many articles on the canoe and her meaning to Polynesians.