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In Beyond the Blue Horizon, best-selling research historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the long lasting puzzle of the oceans, the planet's most forbidding surfaces. This is not an account of Columbus or Hudson, but of much prior mariners. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly talks about how our mastery of the oceans has altered background, even before background was written. Beyond the Blue Horizon delves in to the very origins of humanity's long and seductive relationship with the ocean. It willl enthrall listeners who enjoyed Longitude, Simon Winchester's Atlantic, or in its scope and its own insightful linking of technology and culture, Guns, Germs, and Metal. What drove humans to associated risk their lives on available water? How performed early sailors unlock the secrets of winds, tides, and the actors they steered by? What were the earliest ocean crossings like? With compelling information, Brian Fagan shows how seafaring developed so that the great realms of the ocean gods were changed from obstacles into highways that hummed with commerce. Indeed, for most of human history, oceans have been the most vital connectors of far-flung societies. From bamboo rafts in the Java Sea to the caravels of age Finding, from Easter Island to Crete, Brian Fagan crafts a captivating narrative of humanity's need to seek out distant shores, of the daring men and women who performed so, and of the symbol they have left on civilization.

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