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