In the Wake of the Jomon - Turk, Jon
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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.

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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.
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Jon Turk is the author of Cold Oceans: Adventures in Kayak, Rowboat and Dogsled (HarperCollins, 1998). A chemist by training and an adventurer by avocation, he has for decades paddled the world's coldest oceans-including Cape Horn and a journey across the Northwest Passage from Alaska to Baffin Island-and has traveled all over the world on numerous expeditions to strange and exotic places. His expeditions have been sponsored by The North Face, Prijon Kayaks, and other outdoor gear manufacturers. He is the author of 23 environmental and earth science textbooks for W.B. Saunders Company. HOMETOWN: Darby, Montana