In the Wake of the Jomon Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific |
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| Author:
| Turk, Jon |
| ISBN: | 978-0-07-147465-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2006 |
| Publisher: | McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
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| Imprint: | International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.00 |
Book Description:
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"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...
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"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.