Tim SeverinTim 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.

AOS Pirate Fiction

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

The author’s official web site is www.timseverin.net

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