The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the OceansDavid Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills, long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far flung islands. By the 7th century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringing together the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific, linking together half the

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