Tim Severin Bücher

„Auf der Suche nach Robinson Crusoe“ vereinigt die Beschreibung von Reisen zu abgelegenen Inseln und einsamen Stränden mit einer brillanten literarischen Spurensuche. Die Beteiligten sind dabei Piratenkapitäne des achtzehnten Jh. und heutige Eingeborene der karibischen Küsten, ein schottischer Schulmeister ebensowie ein kanadischer Student, der den seltsamen Miskito-Dialekt spricht. Ein Buch voller Abenteuer und Entdeckungen, eine fantastische Reisedurch Mythos und Geschichte. Tim Severin - Entdecker, Forscher, Abenteurer, Schriftsteller, Filmemacher- hat viele solcher abenteuerlicher Fahrten auf den Spuren berühmter Reisender unternommen und in seinen Büchern beschrieben. Hierfür erhielt er unter anderem denThomas Cook Travel Book Award, TheBook of the Sea Award, einen Christopher Prize und die Literaturmedaille der Académie de la Marine.

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

Sailing across the Caribbean, Hector Lynch falls into the hands of the notorious buccaneer, Captain John Coxon. Hector's two friends, Dan and Jaques are released when Coxon mistakes Hector as the nephew of Sir Thomas Lynch the Governor of Jamaica - an error that Hector encourages.