The Sea Road

by Margaret Elphinstone

Book Overview

A haunting and compelling historical novel, The Sea Road is an ambitious retelling of the Viking exploration of the North Atlantic from the view-point of one extraordinary woman, as transcribed by an Icelandic monk commissioned to write her life story by his superiors in Rome. Gudrid lives at the remote edge of the known world, in a starkly beautiful landscape where the sea is the only connection to the shores beyond. It is a world where the old Norse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841951765
• ISBN13: 9781841951768
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Beautifully Written

This book was beautifully written and the images floated inside my head as I was reading this book.

highly recommended read

for everyone who likes sigrid undset "kristin lavrandsdaughter", halldor laxness "independent people", cecilia hollander "two ravens", and just generally the saga style, this is a well-written, lovely book. (for content see the book-description above). i really enjoyed this and think i will read it again eventually.