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Sailors Who Searched for the Edge of the Ocean

For thousands of years, sailors believed the ocean had an edge. Some went looking for it and never came back. This is the full story of every civilization that pushed past the horizon — the Phoenicians who may have sailed around Africa before Rome existed, the Greek merchant who reached the frozen sea and was called a liar for two thousand years, the Arab navigators who unlocked the monsoon, the Polynesians who crossed the Pacific in canoes using nothing but stars and waves, the Norse who touched North America five centuries before Columbus, and the men who finally descended to the deepest point on earth and found a fish going about its business in the dark. No edge was ever found. Only more ocean. Settle in.