Tim Severin (1940-2020), explorer/traveller, author, film-maker and lecturer, made his first expedition by motor cycle along the route of Marco Polo while still a student at Oxford. This was the start of his career as an explorer and writer. Severin has recreated a number of legendary voyages and journeys in order to determine how much of the legends are based on factual experience.
He has also written a fictional series about a pirate.
Age of Sail: Fiction
AOS Pirate Fiction |
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| Series: The Pirate Adventures of Hector Lynch | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| 1677 | Corsair | Barbary corsairs raid an Irish fishing village and Hector Lynch and his sister are taken prisoner. |
| Buccaneer | Hector Lynch falls into the hands of the notorious buccaneer, Captain John Coxon | |
| Sea Robber | Hector is on a nightmare passage around Cape Horn where he comes across a small warship entombed on an icefloe | |
| Pirate: Privateer | Lynch is shipwrecked on a tiny island near Jamaica | |
| Pirate: Freebooter | Lynch has come to St Mary's Island, near Madagascar | |
Non-Fiction
AOS Other Non-Fiction |
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| Series: Voyage | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| The Brendan Voyage | It has been described as the greatest epic voyage in modern Irish history. | |
| The Sindbad Voyage | Could his fictional voyages be recreated in the modern world? | |
| The Jason Voyage | Jason could have made the journey considered impossible | |
| The Ulysses Voyage | Severin followed the route of Ulysses' voyage home | |
| The Spice Islands Voyage | In search of the real story behind Alfred Wallace’s expeditions. | |
| The China Voyage | Testing the theory that Asian soldiers reached America some 2,000 years ago | |
| Series: n/a | ||
| Year | Book | Comment |
| In Search Of Moby Dick | Quest for the White Whale | |
The author’s official web site is www.timseverin.net