You keep the night watch on a Polynesian voyaging canoe, a thousand years ago | Long Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are far from every shore, a thousand years back, a young crew member on a double hulled Polynesian voyaging canoe making a calm night passage between islands. Beside you sits the navigator, an old man who carries the whole ocean in his head. There is no compass aboard, no chart, no metal, and no writing, and none is needed. You will learn how the horizon is a ring of doors where the stars rise and set, how one star hands the course to the next all night long, how the navigator reads the long ocean swell through the hull with his body, and how an island reaches out to meet a canoe with clouds and birds a full day before it can be seen. The evening meal is cooked on a hearth of sand as the sun goes down, the wake glows with the sea's own light, and everyone sleeps because one man who has never been lost is awake beside the sail.

You will hear water running gently along two hulls, two voices of water braided together, the soft working creak of the lashings as the platform breathes with the swell, a steady warm trade wind, and the woven sail filling and settling overhead.

This is an extended sleep story of three and a half hours. The narration ends softly around the three hour mark, and then the ocean carries on until the end. Black screen friendly.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
7:45 The Day Lets Go
11:43 The Canoe
16:09 The Evening Meal
20:22 The Navigator
24:23 The Doors Of The Sky
30:16 The Road Of Stars
38:11 The Old Swell
44:51 The Glowing Wake
48:52 What The Old Man Carries
56:21 The Watch Change
1:01:56 Stories In The Dark
1:07:46 The Island Comes Out To Meet You
1:14:30 First Light On The Road
1:18:55 The Canoe Runs On

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New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for.

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Sources: David Lewis, We, the Navigators; Ben Finney, Hokulea: The Way to Tahiti, and Voyage of Rediscovery; Sam Low, Hawaiki Rising; K. R. Howe, editor, Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestors; the Polynesian Voyaging Society and the voyages of Hokulea, with the navigation of Mau Piailug and Nainoa Thompson; the journals of James Cook and Joseph Banks on the Tahitian navigator Tupaia.

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