A Viking Voyage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Viking Voyage write by W. Hodding Carter. This book was released on 2001-10-02. A Viking Voyage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fascinated since childhood with Leif Eriksson’s triumphant sailing voyage a thousand years ago from Greenland to North America, Hodding Carter could not shake his admittedly crazy idea of reenacting Eriksson’s epic journey in a precise replica of the precarious Viking cargo ship known as a knarr. This extraordinary book is the account of how he pulled it off. By turns thrilling and slapstick, sublime and outrageous, A Viking Voyage is an unforgettable adventure story that will take you to the heart of some of the most magnificent, unspoiled territory on earth, and even deeper, to the heart of a journey like no other. A celebration of the people and places Carter visits and a treasure-trove of fascinating Viking lore, here is an unforgettable story of friendship and teamwork–and the thrill of accomplishing a goal that once seemed impossible.
Voyage with the Vikings
Voyage with the Vikings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voyage with the Vikings write by Paul McCusker. This book was released on 2012-01-11. Voyage with the Vikings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over 1 million sold in series! While visiting Mr. Whittaker at Whit’s Soda Shoppe, Beth and Patrick find a mysterious letter in the Imagination Station requesting a Viking sunstone. The letter is old and says that someone named Albert will be imprisoned if the sunstone isn’t found. Mr. Whittaker sends cousins Patrick and Beth to Greenland circa 1000. On their quest for the sunstone, the cousins meet Vikings Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson—and find the sunstone as they join Leif on his first voyage to North America. But the adventure is just beginning, for when they return to Mr. Whittaker’s workshop with the sunstone, there is another note waiting for them, requesting a silver goblet. Join Patrick and Beth as they continue their travel to various lands and time in the Imagination Station book series.
The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 1)
The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 1) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 1) write by Tamara Goranson. This book was released on 2021-07-22. The Voyage of Freydis (The Vinland Viking Saga, Book 1) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 1 History set her fate in stone...
An Illustrated Viking Voyage
An Illustrated Viking Voyage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Illustrated Viking Voyage write by W. Hodding Carter. This book was released on 2000. An Illustrated Viking Voyage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1997, journalist and history buff W. Hodding Carter, along with a band of amateur sailers, set out to retrace Leif Eriksson's journey to North America. They sailed in a handmade ship modeled after a traditional Viking "knarr." It was the first voyage by Westerners to precisely follow the Vikings' route in nearly 1000 years. The chronicle of this voyage is told in this book, through photographs and colorful running text.
The Far Traveler
The Far Traveler - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Far Traveler write by Nancy Marie Brown. This book was released on 2008. The Far Traveler available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Brown's enthusiasm is infectious as she re-teaches us our history."--The Boston Globe 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 sagas suggested 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, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world. She 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. "Brown rightly leaves scholarly work to scholars. Instead, her account presents an enthusiastic appreciation of her education in how fieldwork and literature offer insights into the past."--The Seattle Times "[Brown has] a lovely ear for storytelling."--Los Angeles Times Book Review NANCY MARIE BROWN is the author of A Good Horse Has No Color and Mendel in the Kitchen. She lives in Vermont with her husband, the writer Charles Fergus.
