BIO FOR JOHN
HASLETT
Author, Voyage of the Manteño
St. Martin’s Press, Nov. 2006
John Haslett has spent the
last fifteen years leading expeditions and researching the
ancient cultures of Pre-Columbian Ecuador.
In 1995, with the
help of an isolated community of Ecuadorian mariners, he built a
30,000-pound, full-scale replica of an ocean-going raft used by
the ancient Manteño people, and then voyaged on the open
sea for thirty-eight days.
Haslett was elected to The Explorer’s
Club in 1998, and later that year he flew the Club’s flag on his
second raft, voyaging for a total of eight-five days on the
Pacific.
His expeditions have yielded large amounts of technical
data and practical knowledge about the Manteño
people and their coastal trading network, and
in 2000 Haslett teamed up with
noted archaeologist Dr. Cameron McPherson Smith to publish
“Construction and Sailing Characteristics of a Pre-Columbian
Raft Replica” in the Bulletin of Primitive Technology.
In
November of 2006, he published his memoir of his first decade of
exploring, Voyage of the Manteño: The Education of a
Modern-Day Expeditioner (St. Martin’s Press, Nov. 2006).
Haslett’s call sign during his expedition’s was KC5KHA/MM. |
