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At the opening of his book on the lost arts of navigation:

“Three of the most remarkable early cultures of navigation are those of the Norse, of medieval Arab traders, and of Pacific Islanders.”

John Edward Huth
b. 1958
American physicist at Harvard University, author of a book on traditional navigation and wayfinding.

In Arabic

من أبرز ثقافات الملاحة القديمة ثلاث: ثقافةُ النورديّين، وثقافةُ التجّار العرب في القرون الوسطى، وثقافةُ سكّان جزر المحيط الهادئ.

Source

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013

He wrote in English. The printed Arabic renders most remarkable as «the greatest»; the Arabic here is ours.

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