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It has been described as the greatest epic voyage in modern Irish history. Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and mater...
Insightful travel writing, riveting narrative history, and clever scholarly discoveries make this a remarkably rich and varied book. Tim Severin has o...
An account of the 1976 voyage of Tim Severin and his crew from Ireland to North America in a small leather boat....
Tim Severin describes how in May 1993 he set sail from Hong Kong on a bamboo raft, made in Vietnam, on a 6000-mile voyage to America. During the six m...
In 1980, four years after his Brendan Voyage, Tim Severin set out to test another legend. With a crew which included eight Omani seamen, and a ship ma...
Across The Pacific By Bamboo Raft
The award-winning author of The Brendan Voyage makes a bold Pacific journey to test a scholar's theory that Asian navigators were the first to discove...
The second volume in the Viking trilogy, an epic historical adventure in a world full of Norse mythology amd muderous feuds....
Set in an ancient Viking world full of brooding Norse mythology and bloodthirsty battles, this is the first volume in an epic historical fiction trilo...
Covering the fundamentals of stochastic processes, this title includes the basics of Poisson processes, Markov chains, branching processes, martingale...
This work explores the legend behind Daniel Defoe's classic novel, visiting possible places where this famous literary character could have been maroo...
The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical ...
In Search of Wallace
The Spice Islands Voyage is about a journey and a quest: a journey among the Spice Islands of equatorial Indonesia aboard a traditional native sailing...
The Spice Islands voyage is a trip among the Spice Islands of Indonesia on a traditional native sailing vessel and a quest to rediscover a remarkable ...
Quest for the White Whale
Severin sets off to retrace Melville's travels around the South Pacific to discover if the Great White Whale is fact or myth....
The vast lands and wealth of Siberia were claimed for Russia in the sixteenth century by a renegade soldier named Yermak Timofeyevich, an explorer who...
By Horse to Jerusalem
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The Quest for the Golden Fleece
Sea Search for the Odyssey
Retraces Ulysses' logical homeward route using a replica of a Bronze Age galley....
A haunting premonition . . . A deadly betrayal. Frankia 780AD: Sigwulf, a minor Saxon prince, is saved from execution after his family is slaughtered ...
The first book in a thrilling historical adventure series set in Saxon times, from the author of the Viking series. A haunting premonition. A deadly b...
The Quest for Alfred Wallace, the Man who Shared Darwin's Discovery of Evolution
Profiles naturalist Alfred Wallace and his journey to the Malay Archipelago...
This is a book about a journey and a quest: a journey among the Spice Islands of equatorial Indonesia aboard a traditional native sailing vessel; a qu...
Hector Lynch, wanted by the authorities in London for piracy, has come to St Mary's Island, near Madagascar, on his search for the elusive Libertalia ...
Includes chapters on the Ainu, Eskimos and Lapps....
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Tim Severin returns with a smashing new pirate adventure which takes Hector Lynch and his band of brothers to the Asian Pacific.Ambushed by a gang of ...
Chronicles the explorations of conquistadors, voyageurs, and charlatans who discovered, opened up and exploited the Mississippi River Valley....
This work is an exploration in to the legend behind Danile Defoe's classic novel, citing possible places where this famous character could have been m...
Explorers of the East
Gives A Fascinating Account Of Towncities Travellers From Europe Who Penetrated Into Asia Between The 13Th And Early 20Th Century To Investigate Into ...
Forew. by Colin M. Turnbull. Picture ed. Douglas Tunstell
It is Constantinople in 1035, and Thorgils has become a member of the Varangian lifeguard, where he witnesses the glories of the richest city on earth...
Hector Lynch follows his quest for the young Spanish woman, Maria, with whom he has fallen in love. His search takes him and his friends on a nightmar...
As Hector Lynch is diving for Spanish plunder in the sparkling waters of the Caribbean, he and his companions are captured by a French ship. Trying de...