Tales of Castaways

[Sam Salmon]

Borne on a Black Current
For thousands of years, the Pacific Ocean’s strong currents have swept shipwrecked Japanese sailors onto American shores

* By Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano* Smithsonian.com, June 16, 2009


The Kuroshio, or "Black Current," is the Pacific Ocean's answer to the Atlantic's Gulf Stream.


Click Here for a well written if somewhat slanted and simplistic story from Smithsonian Mag

[kbs2244]

It looks like a good book.
It appears to be written at a level that kids in school would like.
And those are the formative years.