Books written by Timothy Severin
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Seeking Robinson Crusoe
This work explores the legend behind Daniel Defoe's classic novel, visiting possible places where this famous literary character could have been marooned.
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Odinn's Child
In 1001, the young child, Thorgils Leiffson, son of Leif the Lucky and Thorgunna, arrives on the shores of Greenland to be brought up by a young woman-Gudrid.
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The Spice Islands Voyage: In Search of Wallace
Describing a journey among the Spice Islands of Indonesia aboard a traditional native sailing vessel, this is also an account of a quest to rediscover a remarkable Englishman, who changed the way we see the natural world.
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The Spice Islands Voyage: The Quest for Alfred Wallace, the Man Who Shared Darwin's Discovery of Evolution
This remarkable account of Tim Severin's voyage to the Indonesian Archipelago in search of the island paradise that naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace had explored 140 years before him offers both the thrills of exotic adventure and the ...
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The Jason Voyage: The Quest for the Golden Fleece
The Jason Voyage: The Quest for the Golden Fleece
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In Search of Moby Dick: Quest for the White Whale
The author, an adventurer and travel writer, follows Melville into the deep blue sea in search of his literary creation, the white whale.
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In Search of Genghis Khan
Eight centuries ago Genghis Khan rode out of the steppes of Mongolia to establish the largest empire ever achieved by any one man. Now Tim Severin, award-winning author of The...
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The Sindbad Voyage
With a crew which included eight Omani seamen, and a ship made from Malabar timbers held together with coconut rope and painted with fish oil and sugar, he aimed to recreate the Seven Voyages of Sindbad, from Oman to China, and to find out ...
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In Search of Moby Dick: The Quest for the White Whale
The author, an adventurer and travel writer, follows Melville into the deep blue sea in search of his literary creation, the white whale.