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Sailor in leather boat challenged theory Columbus first to America


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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. ....

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Tim Severin, seafaring recreator of legendary journeys, dies aged 80


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Tim Severin, a British adventurer who for 40 years meticulously replicated the journeys of real and mythic explorers such as St Brendan the Navigator, Sinbad the Sailor and Marco Polo, died on December 18 at his home in West Cork, Ireland. He was 80.
His daughter, Ida Ashworth, said the cause was cancer.
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 the Promised Land in a leather-wrapped boat. ....

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Tim Severin & Ireland Were Good for Each Other


Tim Severin & Ireland Were Good for Each Other
29th December 2020
The Brendan currach – 36ft of Cow & Gate – made for a challenging east-west crossing of the northern North Atlantic in 1976-77
When the Courtmacsherry Harbour Boat Club was founded ten years ago, the late Tim Severin - the neighbourhood s own legendary sea adventurer and explorer of international renown - found himself in several roles at the inaugural gathering. Naturally, he was listed as a Founding Member. But he was an Honorary Member too. He was also Guest of Honour. And he was the CHBC inaugural speaker as well.
Severin – who died at home near Courtmacsherry on December 18th age 80 – had in his time given very high-powered talks to organisations of the calibre of the Royal Geographical Society in London and the National Geographic Society in the US on such topics as his voyaging archaeology re-enactments of classical mythology such as Jason and the Argonauts, and Sindbad to the Fa ....

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Tim Severin, explorer who retraced the journeys of Ulysses and Genghis Khan – obituary


Tim Severin, explorer who retraced the journeys of Ulysses and Genghis Khan – obituary
In his most famous expedition he crossed the Atlantic in the wake of St Brendan the Navigator in a 36-ft wooden ox-hide covered currach
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Tim Severin, the explorer, who has died aged 80, made his name in a highly specialised niche of travel literature: retracing epic journeys made by historical and mythological figures.
Inspired by the voyages of his hero Thor Heyerdahl, Severin’s “replica journeys” included riding through Europe along the route of the first Crusade; captaining an Arab sailing ship from Muscat to China to investigate the legend of Sinbad the Sailor; steering a replica of a Bronze Age galley to trace the Mediterranean journeys of Jason and Ulysses; galloping across Mongolia on horseback in search of Genghis Khan, and sailing the Pacific on a bamboo raft to test the theory that ancient Chinese mariners could have reached the west coast of Americ ....

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