Philip Beale

One afternoon in 1982, Philip Beale was on a tour of Borobodur temple in Magelang, Central Java, when his eyes were transfixed on a relief on the walls of the Buddhist templea picture of an ancient sailing boat. Beale, just completing a study on traditional canoes in Papua New Guinea, was fascinated by what he saw and dreamed of building such a boat and retracing the route of the bygone sailors on their voyage to distant lands in anci