Periplous: The Twelve Voyages of Pytheas

by Lesley Saunders

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A Greek merchant-explorer Pytheas - whose home port was the Greek colony of Massalia (Marseilles) - is said to be the first person to have circumnavigated the British Isles, in 325 BCE, thereby fixing the islands in the historical imagination as archipelagic, maritime, aloof. His own account of the voyage is lost. This poem attempts to make good that lack, albeit in the consciousness of countless other voyages (imagined as much as real) that have intervened.
  • ISBN10 1848615027
  • ISBN13 9781848615021
  • Publish Date 10 June 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Shearsman Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 32
  • Language English