Recounts the history and current life of the Irish and Scottish maritime culture and their currach, which evolved from a small skin-covered boat to a large sea-going vessel while spreading from prehistoric Galicia on the Iberian Peninsula through the British Isles and Iceland to the Viking settlements in Greenland. Well illustrated in black-and-white. Of interest to serious scholars of Celtic or maritime history, and accessible to general readers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.