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Corsair by Tim Severin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Hector Lynch #1 | Reading Level: Adult
In 1677, on a late summer's evening two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. They are Barbary corsairs from North Africa, slave catchers. As soon as it is dark, their landing parties row ashore to raid a small fishing village - on the hunt for fresh prey ...In the village, seventeen-year-old H ...Show more
In Search of Moby Dick - The Quest for the White Whale by Tim Severin
$14.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Herman Melville's classic novelMoby-Dick immortalized the idea of a mammoth sperm whale roaming the seas, wreaking havoc on all that crossed its path. But could such a creature actually exist, then or now? To find out, the acclaimed adventure writer and explorer Tim Severin set off to the islands of the ...Show more
The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Adventure & Exploration | Series: Century Travellers Ser.
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 ...Show more
The Ulysses Voyage by Tim Severin
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics, Literature & Plays
Was Homer's Odyssey entirely imaginary? Or did Ulysses make a real voyage home from the siege of Troy to Ithaca? In a gripping modern detective story Severin uses his replica of a Bronze Age galley to follow the clues which lead to a startling solution to the puzzle. Now for the first time, Ulysses' log ...Show more
Viking 2: Sworn Brother by Tim Severin
$8.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: vikings series
London, 1019: A few months have passed since Thorgils has escaped the clutches of the Irish Church only to find himself at the centre of a capricious love affair with Aelfgifu, wife of Knut the Great, ruler of England, and one of the most powerful men of the Viking empire. A passionate relationship betw ...Show more
Viking : King's Man by Tim Severin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical
The dazzling sequel to Odinn's Child and Sworn Brother - here is the triumphant conclusion to this epic Viking adventure Constantinople, 1035: Thorgils has become a member of the Varangian lifeguard and witnesses the glories of the richest city on earth but also the murderous ways of the imperial fa ...Show more
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