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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
by Brown, Nancy Marie
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- 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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- 041590
- Title
- The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
- Author
- Brown, Nancy Marie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 015101440X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014408
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando
- Date Published
- 2007
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Sciences;
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