Tim Severin Bücher

Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick immortalized the concept of a battling white sperm whale, but did such a creature really exist? Explorer and writer Tim Severin travelled to the islands of the Pacific to find out. From Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas archipelago to Pamilacan and Tonga, Severin compares myth with reality in a fascinating journey of discovery. Along the way he investigates the real extent of Melville's whaling experience, and unearths other potential sources for his famous story; encounters the extraordinary whale-jumpers, who even now make their living by leaping on the backs of whales to ram home their spears; and observes a retired harpooner re-enact the curious ballet of a kill - transporting himself to his youth in the process, like a shaman from a forgotten age. Travel writing and personal and historical anecdote combine to offer an exploration of one of the ocean's enduring myths.

„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.

Using a replica of a Bronze Age galley, Tim Severin and his crew set off on the voyage of Odysseus to discover if Homer's Odyssey could possibly be true...Did Ulysses make a real voyage home from the siege of Troy to Ithaca? Did Scylla and Charybdis and the Cyclops really exist in any form? and what about the Sirens and Circe the witch? In this gripping modern detective story the clues lead to a most startling solution.

Ambushed by a gang of hardened sea robbers headed for the South Sea, Hector Lynch, pirate and fugitive, is obliged to navigate their vessel on a nightmarish journey through the stormy seas off Cape Horn and when his ruthless shipmates abandon him in Peru, he learns that Maria, the young Spanish woman who stole his heart and whose false testimony saved him from the gallows, is now living on the remote Ladrones, the Thief Islands, on the far side of the Pacific Ocean. His epic voyage to reach her will bring him face to face with a Japanese warlord who submits trespassers to his island to a deadly duel and with a naked Stone Age tribe who file their teeth to sharp points and sail boats that outpace the fastest galleon. In "Pirate: Sea Robbers" Tim Severin takes the reader on an enthralling adventure through the seventeenth-century world of the seafarers who risked scurvy, shipwreck and drowning in hopes of reaping fortunes in spice and treasure.