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"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

Who reads The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints?

Author

Severin, Timothy

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Book Company

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780070563353

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.18 / 5 (693 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14