Tim Severin, explorer/traveller,
author, film-maker and lecturer, made his first expedition by motor cycle along the route
of Marco Polo while still a student at Oxford.
He has sailed a leather boat across the
Atlantic in the wake of St. Brendan the Navigator,
captained an Arab sailing ship from Muscat to China to investigate the
legends of Sindbad the Sailor, steered a replica of
a Bronze Age galley to seek the landfalls of Jason
and the Argonauts and of Ulysses,
ridden the route of the first Crusader
knights across Europe to Jerusalem, travelled on
horse back with nomads of Mongolia in search of the heritage of Genghis Khan, sailed the Pacific on a bamboo raft to test
the theory that ancient Chinese mariners could have
reached to the Americas, retraced the journeys of Alfred Russell
Wallace, Victorian pioneer
naturalist, through the Spice Islands of Indonesia using a 19th century prahu, and traced the
origins of Moby Dick, the great white whale among the aboriginal sea
hunters of the Pacific. More
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