Another note on whales and silence from Tim Severin
I blogged this paragraph from The Brendan Voyage – but here is something rather different from In Search of Moby Dick: “Not everything matched the old whaling lore. I was startled…
Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
I blogged this paragraph from The Brendan Voyage – but here is something rather different from In Search of Moby Dick: “Not everything matched the old whaling lore. I was startled…
“But on the voyage itself none of Brendan’s crew guessed what was about to happen, not even Trondur, who had a great deal of experience of whales and whale-catching. Day after…