The Jason Voyage: the Quest for the Golden Fleece by Tim Severin

The Jason Voyage (1984) The epic poem Argonautica, first written down by Apollonius of Rhodes in Alexandria in the late 3rd century B.C., became the basis for Severin’s next expedition. He began his research into ancient Greek ships and the details of the text in 1981. Master shipwright Vasilis Delimitros of Spetses hand built a 54-foot replica of a Bronze Age galley based on a detailed scale model of the Argo. In 1984, with twenty volunteer oarsmen, Severin rowed and sailed from northern Greece through the Dardanelles, crossed the Marmara Sea, and passed through the Straits of Bosphorus to the Black Sea—a voyage of 1500 miles. Along the way they identified many of the landmarks visited by Jason and his Argonauts, and found a likely explanation for the legend of the Golden Fleece. Severin recounted the expedition in The Jason Voyage (1985). This 1985 Hutchinson Hardback is in very good condition. DJ; Heavy.

ISBN: 0091618800 SKU: 1344441 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1344441
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