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    <![CDATA[The Brendan Voyage: A Leather Boat Tracks the Discovery of America by the Irish Sailor Saints]]>
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    <![CDATA[Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built a boat identical to the leather curragh that carried Brendan on his epic voyage. He found a centuries-old, family-run tannery to prepare the ox hides in the medieval way; he undertook an exhaustive search for skilled harness makers (the only people who would know how to stitch the three-quarter-inch-thick hides together); he located one of the last pieces of Irish-grown timber tall enough to make the mainmast. But his courage and resourcefulness were truly tested on the open seas, including one heart-pounding episode when he and his crew repaired a dangerous tear in the leather hull by hanging over the side--their heads sometimes submerged under the freezing waves--to restitch the leather. A modern classic in the tradition of Kon-Tiki, <em>The Brendan Voyage</em> seamlessly blends high adventure and historical relevance. It has been translated into twenty-seven languages since its original publication in 1978.<br/><br/>With a new Introduction by Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming]]>
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