Premiere Ciela Publishers The Ulysses Voyage Crusader by Tim Severin
Location: Art gallery
Start: 04 September, 18:00 h.
Tim Severin is a British writer and explorer. He has sailed a leather boat across the Atlantic, captained a ship from Muscat to China to investigate the legends of Sindbad the Sailor, steered a replica of a Bronze Age galley to seek the landfalls of Jason and the Argonauts and of Ulysses, ridden the route of the first Crusader knights across Europe to Jerusalem. He has written books about all these adventures, which have won him prestigious awards. Tim Severin holds the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He has been conferred with the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Trinity College, Dublin, and by University College, Cork.