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Product Identifiers
PublisherMcGraw-Hill Companies, T.H.E.
ISBN-100070563357
ISBN-139780070563353
eBay Product ID (ePID)2148514
Product Key Features
Book TitleBrendan Voyage
Publication Year1978
TopicEssays & Travelogues
Number of PagesVIII, 292 Pages
LanguageEnglish
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel
AuthorTim Severin
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
LCCN78-000867
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal910/.9163/1
SynopsisCould an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built a boat identical to the leather curragh that carried Brendan on his epic voyage. He found a centuries-old, family-run tannery to prepare the ox hides in the medieval way; he undertook an exhaustive search for skilled harness makers (the only people who would know how to stitch the three-quarter-inch-thick hides together); he located one of the last pieces of Irish-grown timber tall enough to make the mainmast. But his courage and resourcefulness were truly tested on the open seas, including one heart-pounding episode when he and his crew repaired a dangerous tear in the leather hull by hanging over the side--their heads sometimes submerged under the freezing waves--to restitch the leather. A modern classic in the tradition of Kon-Tiki, The Brendan Voyage seamlessly blends high adventure and historical relevance. It has been translated into twenty-seven languages since its original publication in 1978. With a new Introduction by Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming
LC Classification NumberG470.S48
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The Brendan Voyage
An adventurous account of an incredible effort to prove the possibility of the legend of St. Brendan having sailed from Ireland to America before Columbus.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
