The Jason Voyage: The Quest for the Golden Fleece

by Timothy Severin

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To row and sail a twenty-oared galley from Greece to Soviet Georgia, a distance of some 1500 sea miles, was a team achievement par excellence. As skipper of Argo I feel that there is no more appropriate way to introduce my account of the Jason Voyage than to list the men and women who made up the twentieth-century crew-whether for all 1500 miles plus trails and delivery, or just a single day's rowing. they were the New Argonauts: