Land Under the Pole Star
Title | Land Under the Pole Star PDF eBook |
Author | Helge Ingstad |
Publisher | New York : St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | America |
ISBN |
Norwegian explorer reconstructs all aspects of life in Norse communities founded by Eirik the Red about 1000 A.D.
Land Under the Pole Star
Title | Land Under the Pole Star PDF eBook |
Author | Helge Ingstad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | America |
ISBN |
Under a Pole Star
Title | Under a Pole Star PDF eBook |
Author | Stef Penney |
Publisher | Quercus |
Pages | 675 |
Release | 2017-09-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1681441152 |
Sometimes you have to travel to the farthest edge of the world in order to find your true place in it... A panoramic historical epic and an unforgettable love story from the author of The Tenderness of Wolves, for fans of Kristin Hannah, Sarah Perry, and Barbara Kingsolver A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve. Years later, in 1892, determination and chance lead her back to northern Greenland as a scientist at the head of a British expedition, defying the expectations of those who believe a woman has no place in that harsh world. Geologist Jakob de Beyn was raised in Manhattan. Yearning for wider horizons, he joins a rival expedition. Jakob and Flora's paths cross. It is a fateful meeting, where passion and ambition collide and an irresistible attraction is born. The violent extremes of the north obsess them both: perpetual night and endless day; frozen seas and coastal meadows, and the strange, maddening pull it exerts on the people trying to make their mark on its vast expanses - a pursuit of glory whose outcome will reverberate for years to come.
The Viking Discovery of America
Title | The Viking Discovery of America PDF eBook |
Author | Helge Ingstad |
Publisher | Breakwater Books |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781550811582 |
Faced with harsh conditions in their Greenland home, a group of Vikings took the reins of fate into their own hands. With incredible luck, skill and fortitude, they discovered lands filled with a profusion of wood, wild game and fertile land. In the sagas that grew from this discovery, the lands were given names that resonated with hope and promise. Almost 1000 years later, a husband and wife team united their talents. Intrigued by allusions in the ancient sagas to fabled Vinland, they considered the scholarship on Viking culture and technology; they studied maps and they researched intensively the prominent theories on Vinland's location. And finally their efforts bore fruit when a remote Newfoundland peninsula yielded up a soapstone spindle-whorl, a Viking ring pin, and what had to be the overgrown remnants of over a dozen Viking buildings.
Land Under the Pole Star. A Voyage to the Norse Settlements of Greenland and the Saga of the People that Vanished. Translated ... by Naomi Walford. [With Maps and a Portrait.].
Title | Land Under the Pole Star. A Voyage to the Norse Settlements of Greenland and the Saga of the People that Vanished. Translated ... by Naomi Walford. [With Maps and a Portrait.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Helge Ingstad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Land Under the Pole Star
Title | Land Under the Pole Star PDF eBook |
Author | Helge Ingstad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Greenland |
ISBN |
Under the Pole Star
Title | Under the Pole Star PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Richard Glen |
Publisher | London : Methuen |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | Arctic regions |
ISBN |
Narrative of expedition to Nordaustlandet.