I don´t know how I became the way I am but it may have something to do with the fact that I have meters of bookshelf filled with stories of expeditions, travels and exploration.
Most of it is old and a lot of it is inhereted from my grandfather and I first read it as a teenager.
The thread about seamonsters reminded me that it is time to reread one of my favorites:
"The Brendan Voyage" by Tim Severin.
http://www.timseverin.net/books_brendan_voyage.html
As a young archeologist T.S. found an old account of a journey done by a monk, in a boat made of leather, to a land far west and back.
This together with seamonsters, burning islands and other stuff all together gave an impression of fiction, if only it wasn´t for lots of details usually not found in fictional stories...
Powered by an encounter with a corracle, to much coffee and the cheers "Its impossible!" he researches materials, methods and possibilities, builds a leather boat and sails it to northamerica.
This story contains everything I love from bushcraft and sailing to expeditions and myths, not to mention a real viking (even more real then Wayland) and tha fact that history is not always as we have been taught!
What is your favorite read in this spirit?
Most of it is old and a lot of it is inhereted from my grandfather and I first read it as a teenager.
The thread about seamonsters reminded me that it is time to reread one of my favorites:
"The Brendan Voyage" by Tim Severin.
http://www.timseverin.net/books_brendan_voyage.html
As a young archeologist T.S. found an old account of a journey done by a monk, in a boat made of leather, to a land far west and back.
This together with seamonsters, burning islands and other stuff all together gave an impression of fiction, if only it wasn´t for lots of details usually not found in fictional stories...
Powered by an encounter with a corracle, to much coffee and the cheers "Its impossible!" he researches materials, methods and possibilities, builds a leather boat and sails it to northamerica.
This story contains everything I love from bushcraft and sailing to expeditions and myths, not to mention a real viking (even more real then Wayland) and tha fact that history is not always as we have been taught!
What is your favorite read in this spirit?