Author Results for T.C. Lethbridge
Umiak: The European Ancestry of the “Women’s Boat”
The largest skin boat in the world to-day is the Umiak or “Women’s Boat” of Greenland and Arctic America. It is known from the celebrated drawing in the Pepysian library that the “Wild Irish” as late as the seventeenth century were in the habit of building and sailing very large skin boats, probably much larger […] Read More
Filed under: Early Middle Ages | Atlantic | Antiquity | North Sea | Other (Early Modern) | Irish Sea | Other (Eighteenth C) | Pacific | Arctic
Subjects include: Archaeology | Science & Exploration | Whaling & Fishing