The Ancient Mariners: A Journey Across the Pacific with the First Blue Water Sailors
For millennia, the vast Pacific Ocean was a daunting, unexplored expanse that defied human conquest. It took a special kind of courage, ingenuity and skill to cross this seemingly endless sea, and the first men to do so were the Austronesians and Polynesians. These intrepid sailors began their journey more than 5,000 years ago, in…