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Chronicles the explorations of conquistadors, voyageurs, and charlatans who discovered, opened up and exploited the Mississippi River Valley. Includes information on Hernando De Soto, Jacques Cartier, Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, Henry de Tonti, Father Hennepin, Jonathan Carver, Zebulon Pike, Giacomo Costantino Beltrami, and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and many others.

An account of the 1976 voyage of Tim Severin and his crew from Ireland to North America in a small leather boat.

Retraces the journeys of castaways and pirates to discover the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's classic, describing his undertaking of a perilous sea voyage and search for the Miskutu Indians in Nicaragua and Honduras.

The second volume in the Viking trilogy, an epic historical adventure in a world full of Norse mythology amd muderous feuds.

In 1980, four years after his Brendan Voyage, Tim Severin set out to test another legend. With a crew which included eight Omani seamen, and a ship made from Malabar timbers held together with coconut rope and painted with fish oil and sugar, he aimed to recreate the Seven Voyages of Sindbad, from Oman to China, and to find out whatever truth there may have been in the mythical tales of the Arabian Nights.

A haunting premonition . . . A deadly betrayal. Frankia 780AD: Sigwulf, a minor Saxon prince, is saved from execution after his family is slaughtered by the ruthless King Offa of Mercia. Sigwulf is exiled to the Frankish court of King Carolus, the future Charlemagne. He gains the friendship of some - Count Hroudland, Carolus's powerful and ambitious nephew but - mysteriously - several attempts are made on Sigwulf's life. When he obtains a Book of Dreams, a rare text giving understanding to their meaning, he attracts the attention of Carolus himself. But the Book proves to be a slippery guide in a world of treachery and double dealing. Sent into Spain to spy on the Saracens, Sigwulf becomes caught between loyalties; either he honours his debt to new friends among the Saracens, or he serves his patron Count Hroudland in his quest for glory, gold and even the Grail itself . . .

Recounts the harrowing voyage of Timothy Severin and his crew from Dingle, Ireland across the North Atlantic in a thirty-six-foot leather boat to prove that a sixth-century Irish monk, St. Brendan, could have reached North America as legend claims

This work explores the legend behind Daniel Defoe's classic novel, visiting possible places where this famous literary character could have been marooned. It also re-examines the claim that Crusoe was based on a real life castaway, Alexander Selkirk.

The Spice Islands voyage is a trip among the Spice Islands of Indonesia on a traditional native sailing vessel and a quest to rediscover a remarkable Englishman who changed the way we see the natural world. Alfred Russel Wallace was the joint author of the theory of evolution by natural selection, yet his name has been overshadowed by that of Darwin. An intrepid naturalist, he wrote The Malay Archipelago, one of the first travel books. Tim Severin used the book as a guide, when in 1996 he retraced Wallace's path through the Spice Islands, travelling through uncharted waters, observing unusual flora and fauna, and ancient systems of tribal rule. His own account of this journey is offered here.

Ambushed by sea robbers headed for the South Sea, Hector Lynch, pirate and fugitive, is obliged to navigate their vessel through the stormy seas off Cape Horn. There Hector uncovers the remains of a warship entombed on an ice float, its crew two skeletons - the ship's captain and his dog - both frozen to death. After he's abandoned in Peru, Hector learns that Maria, the woman who stole his heart and saved his life, is now living on the remote Thief Islands. On his epic voyage to reach her, he confronts a Japanese warlord, who submits trespassers on his island to a deadly duel, and a naked Stone Age tribe, who file their teeth to sharp points and sail boats that outpace the fastest galleon.