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How did primitive seafaring alter us?

Jun 10, 2022
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Torres islanders on a bamboo raft, 1906. Via Encyclopedia of New Zealand

In “Around Cape Horn,” a video produced by Mystic Seaport in 1980, Captain Irving Johnson narrates film footage from his first voyage on board the SS Peking, a four-masted, steel-hulled barque, during 1929. The largest ship in the world of its kind at that time, the Peking was entir…

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