What does Severin want us to understand, to experience, and to remember later here?

3-4 Full “Pages”= at least 750-1000 words +/-,
double-spaced, 12-point font
Tim Severin’s Episode: “The Crew and the Boat”, pages 55-61
For this topic, you will be focusing on a long passage from the “Departure” chapter in Severin’s The Brendan Voyage. I have given you the page numbers from the assigned paperback edition; you may need to check with me if you are using a digital or hardback edition. The passage starts on page 55 with the very first paragraph of the “Departure” chapter and the passage ends on page 61after the interview with the wives. What we get on those pages – 55-61 – will be the focus of your work with this topic.
In the passage on pages 55-61, in this presentation of the crew and the situation in the boat just before leaving, what are the main points and the supporting details? What does Severin want us to understand, to experience, and to remember later here? How can we see Severin’s skillful handling of facts and feeling here?
For your essay, you will need to summarize the information that Severin gives to us, highlight the main ideas he presents, clarify the problems and solutions here, and help us to appreciate the human angles as well. Severin uses both storytelling and explaining — both narration and exposition, as I say in one of my video-lectures — to help us understand what is happening and what matters.
In your introduction, be sure to identify this specific passage by the name “The Crew and the Boat” from “Departure” in Tim Severin’s The Brendan Voyage. (Use page numbers to mark your quotations; let me know in a brief note at the top of page one if you are using the assigned paperback, a different paperback, a hardback or a digital edition of Severin’s book.)

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