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9780071474658

In the Wake of the Jomon Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific

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    9780071474658

  • ISBN10:

    007147465X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-07-04
  • Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Summary

"An extraordinary adventure." --Sea KayakerIn 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. InIn 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 thatPaddlermagazine named one of the ten greatest sea kayak expeditions of all time.

Author Biography

Jon Turk, author of Cold Oceans:Adventures in Kayak, Rowboat, and Dogsled, is a science textbook author by vocation. He has paddled around Cape Horn, across the Northwest Passage, and in high-latitude oceans around the world.

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