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Item Details
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IN THE WAKE OF THE JOMON
STONE AGE MARINERS AND A VOYAGE ACROSS THE PACIFIC |
| By: |
Jon Turk |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
007147465X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780071474658 |
| Publisher: |
INTERNATIONAL MARINE PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2006 |
| Edition: |
annotated ed |
| Pages: |
312 |
| Description: |
In 1996, a 9,500-year-old skeleton unearthed beside the Columbia River galvanized anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from northern Japan by crossing the ocean in small open boats. Here, the author relates his successful attempt to re-create this perilous migration. |
| Synopsis: |
"An extraordinary adventure." - "Sea Kayaker". In 1996, a 9,500-year-old skeleton unearthed beside the Columbia River galvanized anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from northern Japan by crossing the ocean in small open boats. In "In the Wake of the Jomon", world-class kayaker and science writer Jon Turk relates his successful attempt to re-create this perilous migration, a voyage that "Paddler" magazine named one of the ten greatest sea kayak expeditions of all time. |
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