It willl enthrall listeners who enjoyed Longitude, Simon Winchester's Atlantic, or in its scope and its insightful linking of technology and culture, Guns, Germs, and Steel. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans has changed history, even before history was written.īeyond the Blue Horizon delves into the very beginnings of humanity's long and intimate relationship with the sea. This is not a tale of Columbus or Hudson, but of much earlier mariners. In Beyond the Blue Horizon, best-selling science historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring mystery of the oceans, the planet's most forbidding terrain.
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