The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, Ca. A.D. 1000-1500

by Kirsten A. Seaver

Book Overview

It is now generally accepted the Leif Eriksson sailed from Greenland across the Davis Strait and made landfalls on the North American continent almost a thousand years ago, but what happened in this vast area during the next five hundred years has long been a source of disagreement among scholars. Using new archeological, scientific, and documentary information (much of it in Scandinavian languages that are a bar to most Western historians), this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731616
• ISBN13: 9780804731614
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"