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Episode #016 Margaret Mead Their Life and Ours
Aired 9/7/09
Mead spent decades studying Pacific islanders and then used that material to analyze American culture.
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Carol Steckler’s First interview with Richard Fagen:
Episode #001 Cuba
Richard discusses Cuba with Carol
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Episode #012 Polynesian Navigation
Aired 7/6/09
How Pacific islanders sailed vast distances without the aid of instruments of any kind.
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Episode #020 Two Voyages Across the Pacific in Very Small Craft
Aired 11/2/09
In the 1950s, an Australian crosses the Pacific in an amphibious Jeep. In the 1960s, an American crosses the Pacific a 13-foot sailboat.
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Episode #019 Joshua Slocum: Sailing Alone Around the World
Aired 10/19/09
JOSHUA SLOCUM: SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD. In 1898, Slocum competed the world’s first solo circumnavigation. Although he dropped out of school at 10, his classic book about the adventure has been continuously in print for 110 years.
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Episode #017 Flying Cloud: A Great Clipper Ship’s Days of Glory and Tragic End
Aired 9/21/09
In the two decades before the Civil War, American shipyards produced the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships in the world.
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Episode #018 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- America’s Favorite Poet
Aired 10/5/09
In the 19th Century, Longfellow was America’s most beloved and widely read poet. Does anyone read him now?
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Episode #015 Mutiny on the Bounty
Aired 8/17/09
Sailors on HMS Bounty mutiny, set Captain Bligh adrift in a small boat, and finally settle on Pitcairn Island–where bad things happen.
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Episode #014 Some Enchanted Evening
Aired 8/3/09
For centuries, Westerners have thought of Polynesia as a sensual, primitive, paradise.
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Episode #013 Thor Heyerdahl and Kon Tiki
Aired 7/20/09
One of the 20th Century’s greatest adventurers sails and drifts from South America to the Tuomotu Islands on a balsa wood raft.
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