Infinite Voyage of the Navigational Mind

How did primitive seafaring alter us?

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…