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East Africans & Ancient Navigation

EAST AFRICANS & ANCIENT NAVIGATION   by Harry Bourne bsooty1@aol.com Why It Could Not Be In a series of papers, this writer has proposed that our ancestors were very much more in touch by sea than is usually accepted by most maritime historians. Doubts about this lead us into something seen in many other of Read More

West Africans & Navigation

WEST AFRICANS & NAVIGATION by Harry Bourne bsooty1@aol.com   CANOES & NAVIGATION: Oliphantes to Ogowe   This is to be seen as a companion piece for “East Africans & Navigation” that in turn is one of a series of papers discussing aspects of whether Africans ever went to sea or were too much in terror Read More