In the Wake of the Jomon

<p><b>An extraordinary adventure.</b><br/><b>--Sea Kayaker</b></p><p>In 1996 a 9500-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 <i>In the Wake of the Jomon</i> world-class kayaker and science writer Jon Turk relates his successful attempt to re-create this perilous migration a voyage that <i>Paddler</i> magazine named one of the ten greatest sea kayak expeditions of all time.</p>