The Far Traveler

The Far Traveler Voyages of a Viking Woman

Audio CD (28 Feb 2023)

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Publisher's 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 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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9798212203036
Publisher: HarperCollins
Imprint: HarperCollins
Pub date:
DEWEY: B
Language: English
Weight: 558g
Height: 142mm
Width: 146mm
Spine width: 28mm