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The Brendan Voyage by Severin, Tim is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Brendan Voyage about?

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 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 Pu

Who reads The Brendan Voyage?

Author

Severin, Tim

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307755605

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.18 / 5 (104 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14