The Spice Islands Voyage, in Search of Wallace is the June choice for our Indonesian bookgroup but I’m reading it early because it’s hard to source and we need to circulate the library copy as best we can.
It’s more than a travel book. Tim Severin is an explorer who specialises in recreating historic voyages, and the list of his books at Wikipedia is impressive:
- Tracking Marco Polo (1964) – Motorcycle ride from Venice to Central Asia along the Silk Road
- Explorers of the Mississippi (1968)
- The Golden Antilles (1970)
- The African Adventure (1973)
- Vanishing Primitive Man (1973)
- The Oriental Adventure: Explorers of the East (1976)
- The Brendan Voyage (1978) – Sailing a leather currach from Ireland to Newfoundland
- The Sindbad Voyage (1983) – Sailing an Arab dhow from Muscat, Oman to China
- The Jason Voyage: The Quest for the Golden Fleece (1986) – Sailing from Greece to Georgia
- The…
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