Download or read book Irresistible North written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the travel narrative describing the journey of the Zen brothers through the North Atlantic in the 1380s and 1390s, and looks at why the Zen's account was called a fraud in the nineteenth century.