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Vikings in America

Title: Vikings in America / Graeme Davis.
Author: Davis, Graeme, 1965-
Publication: Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2009.

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Description

xiv, 208 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Challenges common views that the Vikings had little impact on the discovery, development, and history of America by describing the travels of Vikings on the East Coast and in the high Arctic and Hudson Bay and explaining how their presence in America lasted nearly five hundred years.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Vikings to America -- Stepping stones to America -- The Greenland base -- Vikings to Vinland -- Viking exploration of the high arctic -- Viking Hudson Bay -- Vikings and Inuit -- Memories of Vikings in America -- Legacy of the Vikings in America.

ISBN

9781841587011
184158701X

LCCN

2009510016

OCLC

ocn226975543
226975543
SCSB-1526668

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library