Tag: The Brendan Voyage
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The Brendan Voyage
It’s time for Book Number Three in the Ireland Reading Challenge at organised by CarrieK at http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com, and it’s a re-read of Tim Severin’s The Brendan Voyage. Severin and his companions sailed a leather boat across the Atlantic, in a bid to prove that St Brendan could have journeyed to America in the 6th century, and to show…
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Searching for the Isles of the Blessed
Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting! Having, more or less, resurrected and redesigned my book blog, I need to put pen to paper (or should I say fingers to keyboard) and produce a post – after all, writing is the whole point of having a blog. The problem is, what shall I write about? And…
The Book Trunk 