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Mauricio Obregon was a Colombian ambassador to the Caribbean, Venezuela, and the O.A.S. He was founder and president of the Caribbean Naval Museum in Cartagena, and a member of the academies of history of Colombia and of Spain. He retraced, under sail and in the air, fourteen voyages of discovery and followed space flights from the NASA control center. He held the Chair of History of Discovery at the University of the Andes, Bogota, of which he was president, and lectured at universities worldwide, from Harvard (where he was elected to its Board of Overseers) to Dubrovnik. Mauricio Obregon died in 1998Obregon, Mauricio is the author of 'Beyond the Edge of the Sea Sailing With Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and Other Explorers of the Ancient World' with ISBN 9780679783442 and ISBN 067978344X.
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