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Sun Boat

Sun Boat

Hardcover

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0646917730
ISBN13: 9780646917733
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 30 2014
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.53
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Homer's epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are literary tales steeped in historical realities. Although historians now accept that there was an actual Trojan War, the enigma of Odysseus' whereabouts during his twenty-year odyssey remains a subject of debate. How could an experienced sea captain be disoriented for such an extended period of time when he was supposedly within the bounds of well-established Mediterranean trade routes? While scholarship both ancient and modern has suggested that The Odyssey was enacted far beyond the confines of the Mediterranean littoral, SUN BOAT is the first to propose that Odysseus' beleaguered voyaging eventuated in him completing a circumnavigation of the globe c.1160 - 1130 B.C. With over 100 black and white illustrations, SUN BOAT presents a detailed account of the marvellous locations Odysseus visited. Ancient, world mythologies are deciphered to reveal an underpinning of historical and geographical fact.

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