Leather light boat bravely crosses the Atlantic

Author: Tim Severin
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Legend has it that a thousand years before Columbus, the Irish monk St. Brendan, in pursuit of enlightenment and preaching, led his monks to build rudimentary leather rafts and overcame countless obstacles to cross the vast North Atlantic, discovering the "New World" of America. To prove its feasibility, Tim Severin, the explorer, embarked on a personal experiment, reconstructing the ancient Irish leather round boat. Leading a crew of four or five with no maritime experience, heed the great medieval adventure of crossing the North Atlantic. Could the primitive leather boat withstand the of seawater? Could it endure the onslaught of North Pacific storms? Could it break through the encirclement of killer whale pods? Could it escape the perilous iceberg situation? This is a work of non-fiction that meticulously records the thrilling and perilous journey, where the boat could have been destroyed and the crew could have perished at any moment.