Brown, Nancy Marie

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

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ISBN 13:
9780156033978
author:
Brown, Nancy Marie
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Harvest Books
language:
English
Publication Year:
2008
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
13.46 x 2.03 x 20.32 centimetres
Genre:
Biography / Autobiography
Condition:
New
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£14.18

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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown

Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world, landing in the New World and living there for three years. Her story, as recorded in the Icelandic sagas, was thought to be mythical until recent archaeological discoveries shed new light on her life.

Nancy Marie Brown's book reconstructs Gudrid's journey, using cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques to piece together a life that expanded the bounds of the then-known world. Brown 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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