Since we have a number of Kayak'ers in CLSA, here is one of my "favorites:"
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What amazed me the most during my reading of In the WAKE... were the descriptions of crashing through the surf.  Often, waves off the beaches were high enough to block the shore from view... !  Yet, he managed to survive and protect his gear.  
Turk, Jon. In the WAKE of the JOMAN: Stone age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific.(2005), McGraw-Hill
ISBN 0-07-144902-7
In a KAYAK, Jon Turk sails and paddles 3,000 miles from JAPAN to ALASKA along SIBERIAN Shores to prove that it was possible for stone age mariners to populate North America.
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Jon Turk earlier wrote Cold Oceans: Adventures in Kayak, Rowboat, and dogsled about a 2 - year vayage around the North Pacific Rim -- Paddler Magazine named it "one of the ten greatest sea kayaking expeditons of all time."
 
--- Bill Vokac