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The Brendan Voyage: Across the Atlantic in a Leather Boat
The Brendan Voyage Across the Atlantic in a Leather Boat Author:Tim Severin In an extraordinary attempt to recreate St. Brendan's journey from Ireland to America, Tim Severin and his crew embarked on an epic voyage across the vast North Atlantic. This is a new edition of the brilliant story of their adventure in a small, open boat in the North Atlantic, being visited by inquisitive whales, reaching mist-shrouded landfa... more »lls, and receiving a welcome from seafaring folk wherever the crew touched land. Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St. Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. In the boat made of ox hides only a quarter inch thick stretched over a wooden frame, they sailed from Brandon Creek in Dingle to Newfoundland, surviving storms and a puncture from pack ice.« less