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Ancient cache networks & seaborne dangers

Eleanor Konik
Jul 26, 2021
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I’ve been working on a story about sailors who are blown off course from their trading mission and “discover” an inhabited island near them. Since the story takes place in the very early history of this world, I spent some time looking into the trading early explorers did via different kinds of canoes.

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