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The China Voyage: Across the Pacific by Bamboo Raft
The China Voyage Across the Pacific by Bamboo Raft
Author: Timothy Severin
The China Voyage is the extraordinary story of how Tim Severin and his crew made maritime history by sailing across the Pacific on a bamboo raft. Their purpose: to test the theory that Asian mariners reached America some 2,000 years ago. — Their experience provides armchair explorers with one of the most remarkable sea voyages ever, and ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780201441970
ISBN-10: 0201441977
Publication Date: 10/1996
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Perseus Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Trey avatar reviewed The China Voyage: Across the Pacific by Bamboo Raft on + 260 more book reviews
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This book proves the best definition of adventure is someone far from home in deep shit.

Severin tells an entertaining yarn here from the concept of the expedition, to building the raft to launching the expedition and its conclusion. By its description, it was a slow, wet, cold way to travel. It is a good travel narrative, but I think Severin's arguments for contact between Asia and the Americas doesn't hold up in the face of evidence like that of 1491.

A good piece of work. Now to see if I can finish Good to Great and then keep on poking through the large collection of materials I've got on my shelves.
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Readnmachine avatar reviewed The China Voyage: Across the Pacific by Bamboo Raft on + 1440 more book reviews
Non-fiction account of the building and voyage of a bamboo raft, using materials and techniques available milennia ago, testing the feasibility of theoretical Pacific crossings at the time of Christ.


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