The most famous example is the Constellation, a 200-foot schooner which was writer Peter Benchley's inspiration for the book The Deep.

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This story is based on his new book, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot.

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The book begins in an Afghan village in 1952, where a boy named Abdullah travels on foot through the desert with his father and his younger sister, Pari.

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