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The Brendan Voyage

Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints

The Brendan Voyage( )
Author: Severin, Tim
Introduction by: McCourt, Malachy
ISBN:978-0-375-75524-8
Publication Date:Apr 2000
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $45.00
Book Description:

Could 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...
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Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.2 x 20.4 x 1.7 cm
Book Weight:0.264 Kilograms



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