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Severin, Tim

The Jason Voyage; The Quest for the Golden Fleece

1985

29,14 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1985
Lugar de impresión
London. Hutchinson
Autor
Severin, Tim
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Asia
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [24 x 16 cm]; 263pp, frontis, illustrations from drawings by Trondur Patursson, color plates from photos, maps, pictorial endpapers. original cloth with gilt spine title lettering, dj (not clipped), clean and fine copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A description of the author's re-creation of a ship that could have been used by Jason of the Argonauts fame, proving that the legend was possible. The journey from Greece, across the Aegean Sea, through the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara, into the Black Sea to Georgia, 1,500 miles in a twenty-oar galley built in the Aegean to the exact specifications of a Bronze Age boat. The author investigated many of the legends of the Argonauts along the way. The effort was sponsored by the National Geographic Society.