Can you source this great quote about starships?

[Fuzzy Modem]

"They dared to risk it all in a skiff of reeds or leather, on a ship of wood or steel, knowing the only thing between them and certain death was their ship. To explore, to seek out what lay beyond the close and comfortable, every explorer had to embrace danger. And as they did so, what arose was a mystical bond, a passion for the ships that carried them."

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sta...19276605?ean=9781476792675&isbn=9781476792675

Is it Michael Okuda? Doug Drexler? Margaret Clark? Someone on the Barnes and Noble staff?

 

[HIjol]

Okuda, writer, Drexler and Clark, Editor...to be honest, it actually sounds like something Jaques Cousteau would have said...or Heyerdahl...

 

[Avro Arrow]

I'm guessing it was just some random Simon & Schuster copywriter responsible for dust jacket blurbs. The same quote appeared on the front dust jacket flap on the original 2006 edition of the book... it looks like they're just reusing it here for the new version.

Google doesn't seem to turn up anything unrelated to either version of the book.

 

[Fuzzy Modem]

Too bad. I'd have made it my sig.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Didn't Sisko tell Jake something like that in thet D.S.9. episode where they sailed in that solar ship thingy?