The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration) by Tim Severin wishes Recommended for upper elementary or

Recommended for upper elementary or middle school

The Field Guide to Fleece

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Pub Date: February 18

What We Sow is a tale of what we choose to see and what we haven't been taught to see

The Brendan Voyage: Sailing to America in a Leather Boat to Prove the Legend of the Irish Sailor Saints (Modern Library Exploration) by Tim Severin wishes Recommended for upper elementary orCould 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