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 Posted on February 27th,2012I wrote recently a couple of reviews of books by Tim Severin and promised a couple more. Well,behold. As I noted in the prior post,Severin took a few months off after his exploration of the history behind the Jason and the Argonauts story and the returned to Turkey with the same galley he [...]  Posted on January 16th,2012I also read,in recent times,Tim Severin‘s “The Jason Voyage”,his attempt at following the mythical story of Jason and the Argonauts. He had a Bronze Age Aegean galley built using archeological evidence and historical texts. This was the real deal –it would have banks of rowers toiling away and the characteristic “ram”[...] Posted on January 15th,2012I 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 [...] Posted on November 30th,2010I have written about Tim Severin a few times,always with admiration and excitement. I had noticed one of his newer books,In Search of Moby Dick:The Quest for the White Whale,in the library and had passed on it,thinking it less interesting. I was wrong. Severin aims to track down the [...] Posted on August 24th,2010I doodle in meetings. A lot. Occasionally,I’ll get inspired and an interesting boat idea emerges. As is my way,I am typically trying to blend traditional design characteristics in some sort of fusion. I have a few saved on scraps of paper,and its high time I started sharing them. Comments are,of course,[...] Posted on December 18th,2009Last Winter we finally read one of Tim Severin’s books,The China Voyage:Across The Pacific By Bamboo Raft and posted some reactions,all positive. One of our friends said,at the time,that if we liked that book,Severin’s The Brendan Voyage:Across the Atlantic in a Leather Boat was better still. Well,[...] Posted on February 24th,2009 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. | ||
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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. [...]