The 63-foot 'double canoe', Spirit of Gaia, designed by the late James Wharram, as a prototype hub for what he envisaged, nearly 50 years ago — in his essay, The Sailing Community — as a 20th century tribe of nomadic ‘sea people’, all sailing their own, smaller double canoes.
George Dyson, son of physicist Freeman, dropped out of high school, moved to the Pacific Northwest, lived three years in a treehouse 95 feet above Burrard Inlet, B.C., and built voyaging kayaks or 'baidarkas'. Now he's a respected historian.
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As kids, we learn about Vasco da Gama, Fernando Magellan, Christopher Columbus, Francis Drake and Captain Cook, but we know nothing about Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Majid al-Najdi, aka Ibn Majid, the greatest Arab mu‘allim (master navigator) of the Indian Ocean.
The Rock of Gibraltar, with Shipping in the Foreground, ca. 1830s. Painting by J.M.W. Turner.
A 1987 portrait of me by @tonyamosphoto, on the rooftop of 199 Second Avenue (between 12th and 13th Sts.), New York City, where Tony lived with his missus, the novelist @missleetulloch — just a year before I met my second wife.
The Rolling Stones at Villa Nellcôte, Villefranche-sur-Mer, in the south of France, during the recording of Exile On Main Street, 1971. Photos by Dominique Tarlé.