Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ocean Racers
Assuredly, ever since man first became a navigator, swiftness has been to him one of the most desirable qualities in the craft which he created. How much this was so in the dim dawn of history we can but con jecture - what dugout canoes or coracles of hide were matched one against another, or how the pebbles ?ew when the contestants met on the beach to fight their battles o'er again. Who Shall recount the record passages that were made by the Ships of King Huram, or the turbans that were lost and won in the ?eets of Queen Hatshepshu when they sailed to the land of Punt? But to the existence of such things the earliest literature of sea travel bears witness.
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