In the Wake of the Jomon: Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific
International Marine Publishing, July 2006. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. Item #262267
ISBN: 007147465X
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.
Recounting his two-year, 3,000-mile kayak voyage from Japan's bamboo forests to the tundra of Siberia and Alaska, Turk--in the thrilling tradition of 'Kon Tiki'--introduces strong archeological and anthropological evidence that his expedition was not the first.
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