Leif the Lucky

Leif the Lucky
Author: Ingri D'Aulaire
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780816695454

"Originally published in 1941 by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc."

The Far Traveler

The Far Traveler
Author: Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780156033978

"Brown's enthusiasm is infectious as she re-teaches us our history."--The Boston Globe Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman's last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the sagas suggested it could be. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid's steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world. She also sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her and illuminates the reasons for its collapse. "Brown rightly leaves scholarly work to scholars. Instead, her account presents an enthusiastic appreciation of her education in how fieldwork and literature offer insights into the past."--The Seattle Times "[Brown has] a lovely ear for storytelling."--Los Angeles Times Book Review NANCY MARIE BROWN is the author of A Good Horse Has No Color and Mendel in the Kitchen. She lives in Vermont with her husband, the writer Charles Fergus.

American Vikings

American Vikings
Author: Martyn Whittock
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2023-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1639365362

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

In Northern Mists (Vol. 1&2)

In Northern Mists (Vol. 1&2)
Author: Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 850
Release: 2020-06-12
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

"In Northern Mists" is one of the best-known works by a Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Antiquity, Before Pytheas_x000D_ Pytheas of Massalia: the Voyage to Thule_x000D_ Antiquity, After Pytheas_x000D_ The Early Middle Ages_x000D_ The Awakening of Mediæval Knowledge of the North_x000D_ Finns, Skridfinns (Lapps), and the First Settlement of Scandinavia_x000D_ The Voyages of the Norsemen: Discovery of Iceland and Greenland_x000D_ Voyages to the Uninhabited Parts of Greenland in the Middle Ages_x000D_ Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles, and the Discovery of America…_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles, and the Discovery of America_x000D_ Eskimo and Skræling_x000D_ The Decline of the Norse Settlements in Greenland_x000D_ Expeditions of the Norwegians to the White Sea, Voyages in the Polar Sea, Whaling and Sealing_x000D_ The North in Maps and Geographical Works of the Middle Ages_x000D_ John Cabot and the English Discovery of North America_x000D_ The Portuguese Discoveries in the North-West…

The Dial

The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1891
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

The Northmen in America

The Northmen in America
Author: Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1909
Genre: America
ISBN:

Islandica

Islandica
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 526
Release: 1908
Genre: Iceland
ISBN: