Tim Severin, Author, Timothy Severin, Author Atheneum Books $25 (241p) ISBN 978-0-689-12134-0
Riding alongside hardbitten Mongol herdsmen, Severin retraced part of the overland communication system that once linked the far-flung Mongolian empire. In a marvelous adventure that combines travel writing at its serendipitous best with dollops of...
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Tim Severin, Author, Timothy Severin, Author, Tim Serverin, Author . Basic $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-465-07698-7
In 1711, sailor Alexander Selkirk returned to his London home after being marooned on an island for nearly five years. Originally having asked to be abandoned on the isle, Selkirk piqued popular interest and his life story was eventually hammered...
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Tim Severin, Author, Timothy Severin, Author, Tim Serverin, Author Basic Books $24 (212p) ISBN 978-0-465-07696-3
In the role of adventurer-cum-historian, Severin (The Brendan Voyage, etc.) has built leather boats and replicas of ninth-century Arab dhows in order to re-create the voyages of St. Brendan, Jason and the Argonauts, and Sindbad. His new adventure...
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Timothy Severin, Author Bedrick $0 (164p) ISBN 978-0-87226-012-2
On motorcycles, thenOxford undergraduate Severin and two friends set off to retrace Marco Polo's 13th century journey through Asia. Using Polo's journal The Description of the World as their travel guide, the three, calling themselves the Marco Polo
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Tim Severin, Author, Timothy Severin, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0518-4
Written in the vein of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki, this engaging book takes a fascinating armchair voyage through the Indonesian Archipelago journeys of Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). Author and world-class explorer Severin (T
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