[sailing to America in a leather boat to prove the legend of the Irish sailor saints]
Edición de la obra The Brendan voyage
| Autor | Timothy Severin |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Modern Library |
| Fecha de publicación | 2000 |
| Lugar | New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 269 |
| ISBN-10 | 0375755241 |
| OCLC | 41924739, 505743966 |
| LCCN | 99037412 |
| Serie | The Modern Library exploration series · Modern Library exploration |
| Número de Cutter |
S498b |
"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."--BOOK JACKET.