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Catching up on readings past – Tim Severin’s “The Sinbad Voyage”

Tim Shaw — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:36:07 +0000

I have had some time to sift through the back catalog here at Chine bLog headquarters and noted that I never covered a few key books I read in the last couple years. In particular, after knocking off Tim Severin‘s The China Voyage and then his The Brendan Voyage, I moved on to his some [...] Related posts:

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Thinking about a ocean voyage on a bamboo raft? Read “The China Voyage”

Tim Shaw — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:32:58 +0000

I actually had the crazed idea to read a book recently. Doesn't happen much - I am lucky if I can clear my magazine rack in a given month. Long on my to do list, though, had been reading some of Tim Severin's works. Severin is an Irishman (at least he lives there) with an fascinating joint interest in history, archeology, and epic voyages, mostly maritime ones. Sound intriguing? It gets better. Severin's shtick has been to identify an unproven or poorly understood historical journey, build a traditional boat, if a maritime one, that represents the type of that era, and then recreate the journey to see if it could have happened as theorized. Oh yeah, I am IN! I have known about him for a while and only just got around to checking him out. I began with The China Voyage: Across The Pacific By Bamboo Raft. Apparently there are a group of archeologists who believe (or believed, as of the early 1990s) that there was contact between East Asian cultures and Central American cultures within the last couple millennia. [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Stunning traditional boat images by San Francisco’s Lisa Kristine

Tim Shaw — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:13:48 +0000

I recently had to go to a conference in Sonoma, CA. It was a rough assignment, what with all that wine tasting, but I managed to pull through. Along the way I stumbled on the gallery of Lisa Kristine, a San Francisco-based photographer. Ms. Kristine specializes in images of indigenous peoples and the nice thing [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Kayaking the magical waters of China

Tim Shaw — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:10:48 +0000

I loved this piece about kayaking the Li River in the region around Guilin in China. This one is high on my to-do list.

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