Tim Severin
Tim Severin is a British author of historical fiction novels and non-fiction books. He writes three fiction series – Viking, Pirate and Saxon. He is well-known for retracing the journeys of various historical figures. Severin was born in Assam, India, but attended Tonbridge School in Kent, England. He went on to study geography and history at Keble College, Oxford.

Tim Severin became a published author in 1964 with the non-fiction book Tracking Marco Polo. His first novel, Odinn’s Child, was published in 2004. Below is a list of Tim Severin’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Hector Lynch Books

Publication Order of Saxon Books

The Book of Dreams (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Emperor's Elephant (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Pope's Assassin (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Viking Books

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Tracking Marco Polo (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Antilles (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Explorers of the Mississippi (1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vanishing Primitive Man (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Oriental Adventure (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Brendan Voyage (By: Malachy McCourt) (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sindbad Voyage (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Jason Voyage: The Quest for the Golden Fleece (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ulysses Voyage (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Crusader (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Search of Genghis Khan (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The China Voyage: Across The Pacific By Bamboo Raft (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Spice Islands Voyage: The Quest for Alfred Wallace, The Man Who Shared Darwin's Discovery of Evolution (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Search of Robinson Crusoe / Seeking Robinson Crusoe (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Search of Moby Dick (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The African Adventure (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Library of Arabic Literature Books

Mission to the Volga (With: Ahmad ibn Fadl?n,James E. Montgomery) (921)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī (By: Al-Hariri ,Michael Cooperson) (1122)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leg Over Leg: Volume One (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq,أحمد فارس الشدياق) (1855)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Classical Arabic Literature (By: Geert Jan Van Gelder) (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Epistle on Legal Theory (By: Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Hundred and One Nights (By: Robert Irwin,Bruce Fudge) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leg Over Leg: Volume Three (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq,أحمد فارس الشدياق) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volume One (By: Geert Jan Van Gelder,Ab? al-?Al?? al-Ma?arr?,أبو العلاء المعري,Gregor Schoeler) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leg over Leg: Volume Two (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal: Volume One (By: Ibn al-Jawzi) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volume Two (By: Geert Jan Van Gelder,Ab? al-?Al?? al-Ma?arr?,أبو العلاء المعري,Gregor Schoeler) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Principles of Sufism (By: ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūniyyah,Th. Emil Homerin) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad (By: Mamar Ibn Rashid,Muhammad A.S. Abdel Haleem,Sean W. Anthony) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leg over Leg: Volume Four (By: Humphrey Davies,Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal: Volume Two (By: Ibn al-Jawzi) (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Consorts of the Caliphs (By: Marina Warner,Ibn al-Sai,Shawkat M. Toorawa,Julia Bray) (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us: or, A Period of Time, Volume Two (By: Roger Allen,Muhammad al-Muwaylihi) (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Sword of Ambition (By: ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded (By: Yusuf Al-Shirbini) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded: Volume One (By: Yusuf Al-Shirbini) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Treasury of Virtues (By: Rowan Williams) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Risible Rhymes (By: Humphrey Davies,Muhammad Ibn Mahfuz Al-Sanhuri) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Life of Ibn Hanbal (By: Ibn al-Jawzi,Garth Fowden,Michael Cooperson) (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Accounts of China and India (By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Disagreements of the Jurists (By: Devin Stewart,John Sexton,al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd (By: Hmedan Al-Shwe'ir,Marcel Kurpershoek) (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us: Or, A Period of Time (By: Roger Allen,Muhammad al-Muwaylihi) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One (By: Humphrey Davies,Muhammad al-Tunisi) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two (By: Humphrey Davies,Muhammad al-Tunisi) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Diwan 'Antarah ibn Shaddad (By: James E. Montgomery) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Arabian Romantic (By: Abd Allaah Ibn Subayyil) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
War Songs (By: Peter Cole,Richard Sieburth,James E. Montgomery,Antarah Ibn Shaddad) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Life and Times of Abū Tammām (By: Terence Cave,Abu Bakr Al-Suli) (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stories of Piety and Prayer (By: Julia Bray,al-Muḥassin ibn ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Excellence of the Arabs (By: Jack Weatherford,Ibn Qutaybah,Sarah Bowen Savant,Peter Webb) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah (By: Luke Yarbrough) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume One (By: James E. Montgomery,Abu Hayyan Al-Tawhidi) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth Century, Volume Two (By: James E. Montgomery,Abu Hayyan Al-Tawhidi) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Light in the Heavens (By: Al-Qadi al-Qudaʿi,Tahera Qutbuddin,Paul Hinder) (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook (By: Claudia Roden) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Impostures (By: Abdelfattah Kilito,Al-Hariri) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (By: Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni,Mario Kozah) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Book of Charlatans (By: S.A. Chakraborty,Humphrey Davies,Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Jawbarī,Manuela Dengler) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years (By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Book of Travels: Volume One (By: Ḥannā Diyāb,Yasmine Seale,Johannes Stephan,Elias Muhanna) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Book of Travels: Two-Volume Set (By: Ḥannā Diyāb,Yasmine Seale,Paulo Lemos Horta,Johannes Stephan,Elias Muhanna) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature—Volume One (By: al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism (By: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt) (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition (By: al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir) (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kal?lah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice (By: Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ) (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Note: In Search of Robinson Crusoe was alternately titled Seeking Robinson Crusoe.

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Tim Severin Synopsis: Odinn’s Child by Tim Severin is the first book in his Viking series. In the year 1001, Thorgils Leiffson – son of Leif the Lucky and Thorgunna – arrives on the shores of Brattahlid, Greenland. The toddler is to be brought up in the foster care of a young woman – Gudrid. Thorgils is a rootless character of quicksilver intelligence and adaptability. He has inherited his mother’s ability of second sight and his destiny lies beyond the imagination of those around him. Virtually orphaned, he is raised by various mentors, who teach him the ancient ways and warn him of the invasion of the ‘White Christ’ into the land of the ‘Old Gods’. Thorgils is guided by a restless quest for adventure and the wanderlust of his favoured god, Odinn. His fortunes take him into many dangerous situations as well as to the brink of death by execution, in battle, disease and shipwreck…

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