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In the Wake of the Jomon: Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific

by Jon Turk

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A Pacific kayak voyage framed by prehistoric migration

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A Pacific kayak voyage framed by prehistoric migration

Jon Turk uses a 1996 archaeological discovery near the Columbia River as the starting point for an expedition shaped by a larger question: whether prehistoric people could have traveled from northern Japan to North America in small open boats. The book combines an account of Turk’s completed sea-kayak crossing with the anthropological possibility that inspired it, placing physical navigation and ancient human movement in direct conversation. Its subject lies where travel writing, maritime adventure, and prehistory meet, with the Pacific treated as both a formidable route and a link between distant coastlines.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Sea-kayaking and maritime-expedition enthusiasts
  • Readers interested in archaeology and theories of early migration to North America
  • Travel readers drawn to Japan, the Pacific, and human-powered journeys

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Prehistoric migrationSea kayakingPacific crossingArchaeologyHuman endurance

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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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