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The China voyage : a Pacific quest by bamboo raft / Tim Severin.

By: Severin, Timothy [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Little, Brown, 1994Copyright date: ©1994Description: 317 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0316910198 (hardback); 9780316910194.Subject(s): Voyages and travels | Rafts | Pacific OceanDDC classification: 910.9164
Contents:
Ancient rafts across the Pacific -- Building in Vietnam --Lacquer and bamboo beetles -- Trials and departure -- Across the Taiwan strait -- Swept away by the Black Stream -- Along the Ryukyu Chain -- Hsu Fu's Japanese shrine -- Into the widest ocean -- Floating birdnest -- Sunfish and dolphins -- Across the date line -- The great garbage patch -- Losing bamboos -- A thousand miles to go -- Farewell to Hsu Fu.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending 910.9164 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00213298
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Tim Severin describes how in May 1993 he set sail from Hong Kong on a bamboo raft, made in Vietnam, on a 6000-mile voyage to America. During the six month journey that followed the crew survived encounters with storms and pirates, to come within 1000 miles of California.

Ancient rafts across the Pacific -- Building in Vietnam --Lacquer and bamboo beetles -- Trials and departure -- Across the Taiwan strait -- Swept away by the Black Stream -- Along the Ryukyu Chain -- Hsu Fu's Japanese shrine -- Into the widest ocean -- Floating birdnest -- Sunfish and dolphins -- Across the date line -- The great garbage patch -- Losing bamboos -- A thousand miles to go -- Farewell to Hsu Fu.