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Saint Brendan And The Voyage Before Columbus
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Saint Brendan and the Voyage Before Columbus is a an exciting picture book that introduces children and their parents to the story of Brendan's voyage to the land of Tir-na-n-Og, a voyage so fantastic that many people believed it was only a legend.
Born in Ireland in 484, Brendan was schooled in the ways of the sun and the seas and the sky. As a monk, Brendan learned about the land of Tir-na-n-Og, the Promised Land of the Saints, and one day he set out in a sailboat called a curragh to find it. On his journey he and his fellow voyagers encountered a whale, several islands, an iceberg, and a volcano, before finally reaching beautiful Tir-na-n-Og, where "painted saints" (Native Americans) greeted him in peace. Brendan returned home with the understanding that his adventures, good and bad, had brought him closer to God. In a postscript the author links Brendan with Columbus and with modern sailor Tim Severin, who in 1976 retraced Brendan's route in a replica curragh using Brendan's Navigatio as his guide.
This richly illustrated book captures Brendan's spirit and legacy and his incredible adventures as he journeyed to America in the sixth century. It will make wonderful reading for children, who will be excited to learn about this saint after whom so many are named.
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Legacies and Adventures Teach Youth to Pursue Dreams.......2005-02-05
Many parents want to teach their children the importance of identifying and pursuing their dreams and the value of a strong faith in God. In the new book Saint Brendan and the Voyage Before Columbus (Paulist Press, December 2004, paperback, 32 pages) author Dr. Mike McGrew and illustrator Marnie Saenz Litz share the story of St. Brendan and his legendary voyage to North America.
Through lyrical prose and vivid illustrations, this book recounts the life history of Saint Brendan, the Irish monk who spread the message of Jesus Christ in his own land of Ireland and, legend states, beyond to the land of Tir-na-n-Og and to its native "painted saints", a thousand years before Columbus set sail for North America. Whether fact or fiction, Brendan's voyage has sparked the enthusiasm and adventurous spirit of many, including sailors who count him as their patron saint.
The great value in providing children with the images of concrete role models is that it helps them see that they too can capture their dreams. McGrew shares Saint Brendan's story with zeal and energy, stressing the saint's reliance on God's protection and his appreciation for God's hand in the nature surrounding him and in his brother monks. Children who might not sit still for a dry recitation of the facts of a saint's life will be drawn in and inspired by this book and its message to trust in God and pursue your dreams. Aimed at children ages four through eight, the book will also be enjoyed by older adventurers and those interested in the lives of the saints.
An excellent book for young and old.......2004-12-16
A beautifully illustrated book, Dr. McGrew did a wonderful job telling the story of St. Brendan in a way that is thorough, yet succinct. It is a book that both parent and child can enjoy.
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In an extraordinary attempt to recreate St. Brendan's journey from Ireland to America, Tim Severin and his crew embarked on an epic voyage across the vast North Atlantic. This is a new edition of the brilliant story of their adventure in a small, open boat in the North Atlantic, being visited by inquisitive whales, reaching mist-shrouded landfalls, and receiving a welcome from seafaring folk wherever the crew touched land. Tim Severin and his companions built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St. Brendan was supposed to have sailed to America. In the boat made of ox hides only a quarter inch thick stretched over a wooden frame, they sailed from Brandon Creek in Dingle to Newfoundland, surviving storms and a puncture from pack ice.
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the definition of intrepid.......2007-07-04
Tim Severin and his intrepid crew recreate Brendan and his fellow monks' voyage in the 6th century from Ireland to North America in a small ox-hide boat (curragh). The natural materials and traditional techniques that Brendan used are authentically utilized to make the Brendan voyage a successful historical re-creation and a thrilling sea adventure.
Tim Severin is a born storyteller. As far as a historical re-creation event, this voyage has some parallels to the Kon-Tiki expedition. The reason for making the Brendan voyage was to answer the question: Did Irish monks sail across the Atlantic centuries before the Vikings?
This book relates an amazing seafaring adventure. There is one scene where the sea is calm when a pod of orcas spot the Brendan (boat's name). The orca alpha bull comes full tilt at the boat, dorsal fin eight feet above the water line. The crew holds their breath as the bull whale swims under the boat, checking out this strange thing. After an eternal minute of silence, they watch the bull surface and swim back to the pod. High drama indeed.
Tim Severin and his crew are the very definition of intrepid. Severin's level of enthusiasm is amazing; it is never diminished by the cold, wet, and treacherous sailing conditions. His composure as the captain of this little boat is compelling and inspirational.
I would also suggest getting a copy of the hardbound edition, which unfortunately is out of print. The photos of this voyage tell every bit as much of this story as does the text.
Highly recommended.
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An exciting true nautical tale of courage, adventure, and accomplishment.......2005-11-14
The Brendan Voyage is the true-life story of what has been called the greatest epic voyage in modern Irish history. Author Tim Severin and his friends built a boat using only techniques and materials available in the sixth-century A.D., when St. Brendan allegedly sailed to America. The vessel consisted of forty-nine ox hides stitched together and stretched over a wooden frame, yet it was a seaworthy creation capable of withstanding storms and a puncture from pack ice during its voyage from Brandon Creek in Dingle to Newfoundland. Now in a new edition, The Brendan Voyage has been translated into twenty-seven languages, and proves that St. Brendan could have indeed reached America - though whether he actually did is a conundrum left to historians. Written with narrative skill, and illustrated with a handful of black-and-white photographs The Brendan an exciting true nautical tale of courage, adventure, and accomplishment.
If you like obscure history,and adventure of the first order.......2005-09-01
This is a book that unfortunately can be read very quickly.
The author sets out to prove that the journal of St.Brenden is not
as always susposed,alogorical, but a very real tale.With painstaking authenticity he seeks out old timers on the west coast of Ireland who still know how to make boats from bull hide,and sets them the task of building to spec the boat of St.Brenden.The rest is as you might imagine; a voyage to America in a 6th century leather boat.Magnificient story of courage and man against the sea.
A Great Adventure Story.......2005-08-09
Tim Severin has organised several voyages in part to prove that ancient peoples could travel far greater distances than previously thought. In this story he builds a traditional leather boat or 'curragh' to show that monks could have sailed from Ireland to Newfoundland around the seventh century. There is an ancient book called the 'Navagatio' (one old copy is in the British Library) which St Brendan wrote about his voyages around the Atlantic Ocean. It is thought from Brendan's descriptions that he island-hopped via the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland to get to America, and Severin follows this route in a dangerous and interesting adventure taking many weeks. There is much detail on how he built the boat using only traditional methods and materials which was no mean feat in itself despite their still being used in the south-west of Ireland for fishing. The book contains colour photos of the boat's construction and of the diverse and colourful crew who sailed her. The book reminded me of the 'Kon-Tiki' book by Thor Hayerdahl. Also, the pictures are brilliant - and Tim's descriptions of the ports of call such as Iceland and the Faroes are very vivid and realistic. It's a well-written, interesting book and well worth a read.
More than Boats.......2005-01-10
I almost put the book down while reading the first half, but stuck with it, and was rewarded in the second half. I wasn't interested in hearing about the cultures of the places where the boat crew came ashore. Actually, I wasn't interested in reading about anything but the "voyage" proper. And, in this book, you'll get info about the history of some of the places they landed and other "side info". As a result, I found the first half of the book slow and boring.
Nonetheless, once they began the largest leg of the journey, and couldn't land anywhwere, the book picked up pace and held my interest. It turned out to be quite a voyage and a heck of a feat. In the end, I'm glad I read it. But, with that said, I'd have been disappointed had I paid full price for the book.
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legend of St Brendan is one of the greatest legends of the Middle Ages. To the nations of medieval Europe the ocean voyage became a metaphor for the perilous journey of the Christian soul in search of the Promised Land, and no spiritual odyssey attracted wider interest than that of the sixth-century Irish saint, Brendan the Navigator.
Of the numerous versions in which his voyage was chronicled during the Middle Ages, this volume provides the most important examples from a wide variety of cultures, presented in translation-and, in the case of new or rare editions, facing-page originals-together with a general introduction to the real and legendary Brendan, introductions to the individual texts and explanatory commentaries on each, and an extensive bibliography. Most of the vernacular versions are translated into English here for the first time, from Anglo-Norman, Dutch, German, Italian (Venetian dialect), Occitan, Catalan, Middle English and Norse. Caxton's famous version from his Golden Legend is also included.
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Pre-Columbian voyages to the Americas...probably.......2007-10-10
The book, "Land to The West" explores, so to speak, literary, mythic, and folk tales which, the author believes, lead to the conclusion that pre-Columbian voyages to the New World were, if not common, not unusual.
After reading this or other books by Geoffrey Ashe, one notices a kind of novel method of coming to a conclusion.
Ashe spent some time as an intelligence officer. Intel guys have to make the case that the evidence on hand leads to a particular conclusion and, therefore, certain action is recommended. Since most intel has its little ambiguities, its ability to point in several directions, the intelligence officer attacks it, tests it, by considering possible alternatives and disproving them, leaving the conclusion standing by itself. It's a matter of subtraction, of paring off less likely possibilities.
This may be a version of the scientific method. It adds a good bit of interest and plausibity to Ashe's conclusions.
The subtitle has to do with the mythical travels of St. Brendan The Navigator. Brendan was an early Irish cleric, an abbot who got the Word to set out into the Western Ocean. His travels are recounted in old Irish folktales called imrama. Two things, at least, are striking about the story. Wherever Brendan and his crew of sailor-monks fetch up, there are Irish clerics ready to give them food and shelter and a bit of news. The Imrama did not conceive of Brendan as first explorer.
After subtracting the magic and the religion, Ashe, finding quite obvious clues in the tales, concludes that the story of Brendan doesn't really need Brendan. Whether the actual Brendan never got further west than knee-deep in the North Atlantic is irrelevant. Whoever put him in the story put him in the world of travels to the Americas. Ashe explains how various pieces of land could only be--again using the intel officer's technique of subtraction--associated with the Americas. The references are so detailed as to point to a particular piece of land. So Brendan, a real navigator or not, got his story put into the Irish sailing directions to the Americas.
Ashe does little digging, choosing to make this book about the written--mostly--word. He journeys to New Hampshire's Mystery Hill and concludes that the case for pre-Columbian construction is likely. Again, he tests other possibilities. Did the Pattee family build it in the nineteenth century? He puts the amount of work necessary up against what is known of the Pattees' abilities, and concludes not. Was it the Irish? The Carthagians? He hears an echo chamber and is reminded of a legendary reference to a mysterious building across the ocean where mysterious voices speak.
Ashe also discusses other European traditions of voyaging which, when examined, can be seen as extremely likely to refer to pre-Columbian voyages to the Americas, some hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
The book is fascinating. Ashe, also a historian, uses, possibly without thinking about it, some version of the intel officer's technique to investigate stories of far voyaging. His conclusions seem sound.
He makes the point, as did Edith Hamilton in her books about the Greeks and the Romans, that one should never take myths literally, but always take them seriously.
You will almost certainly come away from this book with the idea that Ashe's conclusions are extremely likely to be true.
In addition, it's a fascinating read. The guy can write.
See his book on the historical Arthur, for more of the same techniques of historical inquiry and a novel conclusion.
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Monocotiledoni.......2002-04-03
Il libro è ben fatto (forse un po troppo stringato nelle descrizioni) e le foto a colori precise e di esemplari molto esplicativi. Forse l'aggiunta di chiavi per la determinazione delle specie sarebbe stata un aggiunta gradita da molti... e la maggior grandezza delle foto sarebbe stata un plus valore.
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