The Far Traveler: Voyages Of A Viking Woman
SKU: DADAX015101440X
ISBN : 9780151014408
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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
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.
Specifications of The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
GENERAL | |
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Author | Nancy Marie Brown |
Binding | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN-10 | 015101440X |
ISBN-13 | 9780151014408 |
Publisher | Harcourt |
Number Of Pages | 320 |
Publication Date | 2007-10-09 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 1.06 inch. |
Length | 9.18 inch. |
Width | 6.36 inch. |
Weight | 1.2 pounds. |
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