The Far Traveler

The Far Traveler
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Publisher : HMH
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780547539393
ISBN-13 : 0547539398
Rating : 4/5 (398 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Far Traveler by : Nancy Marie Brown

Download or read book The Far Traveler written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-10-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago. 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 epic tales suggest 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, The Far Traveler reconstructs a life that spanned—and expanded—the bounds of the then-known world. It 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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