FAR TRAVELER : VOYAGES OF A VIKING WOMAN
by Brown, Nancy Marie
- Used
- fair
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 015101440X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014408
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Synopsis
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 spannedand expandedthe 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.
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- Bookseller
- Northshire Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2423266
- Title
- FAR TRAVELER : VOYAGES OF A VIKING WOMAN
- Author
- Brown, Nancy Marie
- Format/Binding
- H
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 015101440X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014408
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando
- This edition first published
- October 9, 2007
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- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....