What were those first canoes like? The birch bark canoe and batteau (which is like a flat-bottom, wooden jon boat) were really the way people got around for both pleasure and for work when they ...

What happens when dozens of canoe teams tackle a 450-mile race down the Mississippi River in 1949? Read and find out.

The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people eastwards into the ocean. By 1500 B.C., these voyagers began moving east beyond New Guinea, first along the ...