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FLOTSAM Mark Chew FLOTSAM Mark Chew

Revisionism, Reassessment, Reinvention?

I find, in rereading some of the classic sailing books published back then, and which I still love, that I squirm a little. It is indisputable that the Slocum era, was also the colonial era; in fact, in its heyday, ocean cruising throve on the socio-political infrastructure of colonial outposts, as uncomfortable as that is for me to admit.

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