Retraces the tracks of Genghis Khan's horde as they established history's largest empire, tells of the legends surrounding the Great Khan's life, and explains how Mongolian culture has changed little since the Middle Ages

In Search of Genghis Khan

History

Severin, Timothy

Europe

Collins Pub San Francisco

The Horizon book of vanishing primitive man

American Heritage Pub. Co.: book trade distribution by McGraw-Hill

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 publication in 1978. With a new Introduction by Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming

The Brendan voyage

World

Hutchinson

The Sindbad Voyage

Travel

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

Light cover wear with some smudges, spine a tad faded, corners edges show wear and bumps, pages are clean but tanning, binding is very tight, no creases, AVON printing first printing May 1979, 299 pages. Can send pics, ships from MA

The Brendan Voyage

Arrow

The Oriental Adventure. Explorers of the East

The Oriental Adventure: Explorers of the East

Asia

Angus and Robertson

The Golden Antilles

Hamilton

The African adventure;: A history of Africa's explorers;

Herman Melville's famous novel Moby Dick immortalised the idea of a battling white sperm whale roaming the ocean - but could such a beast exist? Writer and explorer Tim Severin travels to the islands of the Pacific to find out. From Nuku Hiva to the Philippines, from Tonga to Indonesia, Severin travels on a journey of discovery. Along the way he encounters the extraordinary hook-jumpers of Pamilacan, who make their living by leaping on the backs of ten-ton whale sharks. He observes a Tongan harpooner named Samson - now a priest in the Tongan church - re-enact the mystic ballet of a kill, transporting himself to his youth like a shaman from a forgotten age. And he accompanies the fishermen of Lamalera, who still hunt sperm whale by hand from their Stone Age boats. For them the white whale is no fiction but an ancestor which must be treated with respect. The leviathan is 'Leader of the Whales', intelligent and aggressive ... and real.

In Search of Moby Dick: Quest for the White Whale

Little, Brown, UK

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