25 Jul /13

Kayak

First sighting in Europe of a kayak Although the use of the kayak is believed to date back 4,000 years, with the word appearing in all Inuit dialects from Greenland to Alaska, it did not become familiar in Europe until the seventeenth century.Continue reading Kayak

24 Jul /13

Canoe

The first recorded use of the word “canoe” dates back to 1555, in Richard Eden’s translation of Decades of the New World, a chronicle of Spain’s great voyages of discovery.Continue reading Canoe