The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman - Softcover

Nancy Marie Brown, Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156033976 ISBN 13: 9780156033978

Verlag: HMH Books, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Brown Nancy Marie

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

PRAISE FOR THE FAR TRAVELER "[A] snappily written biography . . . In surprising flashes, Gudrid comes into focus. Brown pursues Gudrid out of admiration for a woman bold and wise. I eagerly pursued this book, which is as much about Brown's adventures as Gudrid's, for the very same reasons."--The New York Times Book Reivew

"Brown's enthusiasm is infectious as she re-teaches us our history."--The Boston Globe

Reseña del editor:

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.

 

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0156033976
• ISBN 13: 9780156033978
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320