On a slow boat from Ambon to Banda MEANWHILE From: International Herald Tribune | Date: November 12, 2005| Author: Michael Vatikiotis | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

International Herald Tribune

11-12-2005

The eggshell-blue afternoon sky meets the ocean along a plane so perfectly horizontal it's hard to believe we are on the open sea. In bygone days, the deep blue waters of the Banda Sea were as well known to the navigators of Plymouth and Amsterdam as the English Channel and the North Sea. In the 17th century, tiny volcanic islands poking precariously above the surface with names like Ay and Run were the epicenter of a lucrative Eu...

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