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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1976
Page
6
J H Parry explains in the fourteenth installment of Oceans Our Continuing Frontier how early water travel defined sailor life. From rafts and dugouts to planked hulls and sails, navigation evolved from sky signs to magnetic compasses, widening routes as latitude and longitude emerged in later centuries.
J H Parry, Gardiner professor of oceanic history at Harvard, surveys how sailing defined crews and discipline from the age of wooden ships to steam. He details scurvy, diet, citrus use, and shifts from sail to steam, noting crew size, living conditions, and enduring sea culture despite modern changes.
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