Sailor in leather boat challenged theory Columbus first to America
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Sailor in leather boat challenged theory Columbus first to America
January 6, 2021 12.52pm
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Tim Severin, a British adventurer who for 40 years meticulously replicated the journeys of real and mythic explorers like St. Brendan the Navigator, Sinbad the Sailor and Marco Polo, died aged 80 on December 18 at his home in West Cork, Ireland.
In May 1976, Severin left Ireland on his most audacious voyage: following in the wake of St. Brendan, a sixth-century monk, who, with a party of other monks, is said to have made a spectacular journey from Ireland across the Atlantic to North America, “Promised Land”, in a leather-wrapped boat.