The Boat of a Million Years

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Chapter V, “No Man May Shun His Doom,” does homage to the late Johannes V. Jensen.

Karen Anderson prepared the epigraph, slightly modifying her translation at my request, and as scholar and critic was invaluable throughout.

The “CCCP” is due to George W. Price.

For other kinds of help I also thank John Anderson, Victor Fernandez-Davila, and David Hartwell.

To G. C. and Carmen Edmondson Salud, amor, dinero y tiempo para gustarlos.

“To sail beyond the world—”

Hanno’s voice faded away. Pytheas looked sharply at him. Against the plain, whitewashed room where they sat, the Phoenician seemed vivid, like a flash of sunlight from outside. It might only be due to the brightness of eyes and teeth or a skin tan even in winter. Otherwise he was ordinary, slender and supple but of medium height, features aquiline, hair and neatly trimmed beard a crow’s-wing black. He wore an unadorned tunic, scuffed sandals, a single gold finger ring.

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