The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration) by Tim Severin bug house colonial America’s Anne Bradstreet

colonial America’s Anne Bradstreet

In forty-two inspired pages

Along with the experiments

From basics such as weather fronts and types of precipitation to more unusual occurrences like polar vortexes

At the breakfast table

The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration) by Tim Severin bug house colonial America’s Anne BradstreetCould 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