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Carregando... We Followed Odysseus (edição: 1999)de Hal Roth
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The story of two legendary sailors - one from the ancient world, the other from today. Set against the backdrop of Homer's great tale, this is the story of sailing a small boat in the wake of Odysseus. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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A more philosophical writer might have connected his voyage with Odysseus's in a more personal or insightful way. And a more flowery writer might have evoked the scenes of Odysseus's trip, both then and now, more vividly. Roth is a sailing geek first, literature geek second, so an awful lot of this book is given over to describing how many sails he used on a given day or which anchor he put down.
But he gets the basic job done, and that's the important part. He successfully retraces anyone's best guess at Odysseus's route. His scholarship seems sound; he makes a worthy point of making it clear that this is all guesswork, and when his guess at a location differs from other valid guesses, he makes that clear as well.
And it's not like it's a huge time commitment anyway. At barely 200 pages of large type with loads of pictures, it's a day's reading. (And also: loads of pictures! Big bonus.)
I've recreated his map for the internet. Hope you don't mind, Hal. I totally gave you props for it. ( )