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Chapters: Kangilinnguit, Ammassivik, Tasiilaq, Narsaq, Maniitsoq, Ilimanaq, Qasigiannguit, Oqaatsut, Eismitte, Saattut, Nuugaatsiaq, Qeqertaq, Ukkusissat, Savissivik, Uunartoq, Qeqertarsuatsiaat, Aappilattoq, Kujalleq, Itilleq, Nuussuaq, Sarfannguit, Naajaat, Kullorsuaq, Sermiligaaq, Narsarmijit, Illorsuit, Alluitsup Paa, Kapisillit, Arsuk, Kangaamiut, Tiniteqilaaq, Moriusaq, Atammik, Kangerluk, Eqalugaarsuit, Aappilattoq, Qaasuitsup, Ikerasak, Isortoq, Qassimiut, Tasiusaq, Kujalleq, Igaliku, Attu, Greenland, Davis Strait, Niaqornaarsuk, Qeqertat, Kuummiut, Ikerasaarsuk, Qassiarsuk, Itterajivit, Iginniarfik, Baffin Bay, Saarloq, Ikkatteq, Petermann Glacier, Disko Island, Clavering Island, Labrador Sea, Milne Land, Smith Sound, Nares Strait, Ella Island, Nuuk Airport, Kangerlussuaq Airport, Kennedy Channel, Geographical Society Island, Nerlerit Inaat Airport, Traill Island, Uummannaq Heliport, Aasiaat Airport, Brønlundhus, Lincoln Sea, Kaffeklubben Island, Ymer Island, Sabine Island, Store Koldewey, Kingigtorssuaq Runestone, Tasiilaq Heliport, Qasigiannguit Heliport, Shannon Island, Little Pendulum Island, Mara Mountain, Nanortalik Heliport, Etah, Greenland, Qaarsut Airport, Sisimiut Airport, Maniitsoq Airport, Gunnbjørn Fjeld, Sokongen Island, Helheim Glacier, Qeqertarsuaq Heliport, Narsaq Heliport, Qaqortoq Heliport, Alluitsup Paa Heliport, Neem Camp, Robeson Channel, Aappilattoq Heliport, Kuhn Island, Kane Basin, Paamiut Airport, Nordostrundingen, Illorsuit Heliport, Upernavik Kujalleq Heliport, Franklin Large Igneous Province, Cape Farewell, Greenland, Saattut Heliport, Nuugaatsiaq Heliport, Ikerasak Heliport, Ukkusissat Heliport, Nuussuaq Heliport, Kullorsuaq Heliport, Kangersuatsiaq Heliport, Saqqaq Heliport, Qeqertaq Heliport, Kitaa, Sermilik Station, Liverpool Land, Scoresby Sund, Cape Morris Jesup, Cape York, Franklin Island, Crozier Island, Atow1996, Tunu, Hall Basin, Daugaard-Jensen Glacier, Qorlortorsuaq, Danmark...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4369101 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Greenland, the largest island in the world, is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. Greenland has no land boundaries and 44,087 km of coastline. A sparse population is confined to small settlements along the coast. Greenland possesses the world's second largest ice sheet. The vegetation is generally sparse, with the only patch of forested land being found in Nanortalik Municipality in the extreme south near Cape Farewell. The climate is arctic to subarctic with cool summers and cold winters. The terrain is mostly a flat but gradually sloping icecap that covers all land except for a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast. The lowest elevation is sea level and the highest elevation is the summit of Gunnbjørn Fjeld, the highest point in the Arctic at 3,694 meters. The northernmost point of the Island of Greenland is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1909. Natural resources include zinc, lead, iron ore, coal, molybdenum, gold, platinum, uranium, fish, seals, and whales. ... Read more

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Chapters: Thule, Icelandic Low, Clarinetania, Greenland. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thule (pronounced ; Greek , Thoul), also spelled Thula, Thila, or Thyïlea, is, in classical literature, a place, usually an island. Ancient European descriptions and maps locate it in the far north, sometimes as the Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands or Scandinavia, or in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance as Iceland or Greenland. Another suggested location is Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea. Ultima Thule in medieval geographies may also denote any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world." Some people use Ultima Thule as the Latin name for Greenland when Thule is used for Iceland. The Greek explorer Pytheas is the first to have written of Thule, doing so in his now lost work, On the Ocean, after his travels between 330 BC and 320 BC. He supposedly was sent out by the Greek city of Massalia to see where their trade-goods were coming from. Descriptions of some of his discoveries have survived in the works of later, often skeptical, authors. Polybius in his Histories (c. 140 BC), Book XXXIV, cites Pytheas as one "who has led many people into error by saying that he traversed the whole of Britain on foot, giving the island a circumference of forty thousand stades, and telling us also about Thule, those regions in which there was no longer any proper land nor sea nor air, but a sort of mixture of all three of the consistency of a jellyfish in which one can neither walk nor sail, holding everything together, so to speak." Strabo in his Geography (c. 30), Book I, Chapter 4, mentions Thule in describing Eratosthenes' calculation of "the breadth of the inhabited world" and notes that Pytheas says it "is a six days' sail north of Britain, and is near ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=283764 ... Read more

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Hans Egede's remarkable 1770-1778 journals were first published in 1818 when the British launched their great nineteenth-century Arctic explorations and such information was in enormous demand. The coast of eastern Greenland had been virtually inaccessible to Europeans for four centuries. Egede's fascinating writings relate his determined quest for remnants of old settlements, keen observations of the Greenlandic Inuit on subjects as varied as polygamy, witchcraft, health, education, how the Inuit's contact with outsiders affected this indigenous people, and previously little-known information about the geography of the island's eastern territories. After years of being out-of-print, Egede's colorful accounts are once again made available to English-speaking readers in this wonderful and timely new series, launched just as the eyes of the world are, not a moment too soon, drawn northward. ... Read more

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Chapters: Greenland Dock, Liberty of the Mint, Surrey Commercial Docks, River Effra, Great North Wood, Canada Water, South Dock, Rotherhithe, St Saviour's Dock, Grand Surrey Canal, Dulwich Village, River Peck. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Map of Surrey Commercial Docks, 1921. Greenland Dock is the long dock near the bottom of the map. View of the Howland Great Wet Dock in 1717 looking west across the Rotherhithe peninsula. Manuscript plan of the Greenland Dock, 1763Greenland Dock is the oldest of London's riverside wet docks, located in Rotherhithe in the area of the city now known as Docklands. It used to be part of the Surrey Commercial Docks, most of which have by now been filled in. Greenland Dock is now used purely for recreational purposes; it is one of only two functioning enclosed docks on the south bank of the River Thames. The dock was originally laid out between 1695-99 on land owned by the aristocratic Russell family of the 1st Duke of Bedford. The Russells had been given a portion of land in lower Rotherhithe by a wealthy Streatham landowner, John Howland, as part of a wedding dowry for his daughter Elizabeth, granddaughter of Sir Josiah Child - the dictatorial chairman of the East India Company, who married Wrothesley Russell, the Marquis of Tavistock. They immediately set about "improving" the rural property, obtaining parliamentary permission in 1695 to construct a rectangular dock with an area of about 10 acres (4.0 ha), capable of accommodating around 120 ships. It was named Howland Great Wet Dock in honour of John Howland. Designed by local shipwright, John Wells, the dock was intended to refit East India ships. In a picture of about 1717, it can be seen in a rural setting some miles outside the (much smaller) city of Lon...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=522668 ... Read more

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For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the men and women who long for and love the complex frailties and treacherous beauty of a world defined by ice.

Greenland, the world’s largest island, 840,000 square miles in extent, is covered by the largest continental ice sheet in the world.

Only the rocky fringe of its coast is habitable. There, the Inuit, the Arctic’s first explorers, have survived and thrived in the harshest of climates. For the Inuit, an ice-age, ice-adapted people who first traveled from Siberia across the polar North six thousand years ago, weather is consciousness. In a world composed of ice and darkness, water and light, where skins of dog, seal, bear, even hare and eider duck, are sewn into clothes, tents, and sleeping bags as protection, where transport is by dogsled and kayak, the only rein for the uncontrollable force of weather is an unbending self-discipline. The blend of physical endurance and psychological perseverance required for daily existence first drew Ehrlich to this terrain.

Her guide, her inspiration, her companion in spirit was the great Danish-Inuit explorer and ethnographer Knud Rasmussen. Between 1902 and his death in 1933 he launched seven expeditions: to record the unknown history and customs of the nomadic Eskimos; to chronicle the skills, beliefs,and crafts that made life in this climate possible and a matter of grace. For Rasmussen, “all true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings of man, in great solitudes.” As she followed his trail, Ehrlich was to find the things that can open the mind to what is hidden from others. This Cold Heaven is at once a distillation of her many journeys, a path into a world divided into darkness and light and, finally, an attempt to capture the clarity that blinds us with surprise.Amazon.com Review
From the acclaimed chronicler of open spaces, Gretel Ehrlich, comes a stunning and lyrical evocation of a practically unknown place and people. Beginning in 1993, Ehrlich traveled to Greenland, the northernmost country in the world, in every season--the four months of perpetual dark (in which the average temperature is 25 degrees below zero), the four months of constant daylight, and the twilight seasons in between--traveling up the west coast, often by dogsled, and befriending the resilient and generous Inuits along the way. Greenland, unlike its name, is 95 percent ice--a landscape of deep rock-walled fjords, glaciers, narwhal whales swimming among icebergs the size of football fields, walruses busting through oceans of shifting ice. In the far north, the polar Inuit--the "real heroes"--still dress in bear and seal skins, and hunt walrus, polar bears, and whales with harpoons. The only constant is weather and the perilous movements of ice, the only transport is dogsled, and the closest village may be a month and a half-long dogsled journey away. The people share an austere and harsh life, lightened with humor and the fantastic stories of Sila, the god of weather, Nerrivik, the goddess of waters, of humans transforming themselves into animals, and interspecies marriages. Interwoven with Ehrlich's journey is the even more remarkable story of Knud Rasmussen, the founder of Eskimology, an Inuit-Danish explorer and ethnographer who took some of the most hazardous and brilliant expeditions ever, including a three and a half-year, 20,000-mile adventure by dogsled across the polar north to Alaska. Like Rasmussen, Ehrlich learns that the landscape of Greenland is "less a description of desolation than an ode to the beauty of impermanence."Alternately mind-expanding, gripping, and dreamlike, This Cold Heaven is a revelation. --Lesley Reed ... Read more

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Greenland's best portrait since Rasmussen
I've read this book twice, once as chosen reading before a month-long glaciology expedition to Greenland and again a year later during a hot summer, pining for the stark landscape. Greenland today is a land of strange idiosyncrasies, with ancient Inuit and modern Western cultures meeting with often mixed results. Ehrlich does not shy away from this, but embraces and explores what may seem alien at first glance. Some readers may turn away from customs that seem barbaric or disconcerting, but Ehrlich musters the courage to stick with it, and if you do too, you'll discover an incredibly honest, pure, and flexible people, mirroring the harsh landscape they inhabit.

It took a personal trip to Greenland to fully grasp what was laid before me in this book. Thanks to Ehrlich, I can't wait to go back.

Too Much of a Good Thing
I very much enjoyed this book.It was a fascinating look at a land steeped in tradition and culture, and I feel I got to know the people and their lives.
Ehrlich is a wonderful writer who knows how to turn a phrase.But...but....but--why I am only giving this three stars?It's because I felt the book was too much of a good thing.While the stories of the people she met and the Inuit ways are fascinating, do I really need to read 356 pages of how beautiful the ice was over and over and over and over?How many times do I have to hear that "ice is chaos", "ice is time", "the ice was like newly shampooed hair", "the sun was like a flashlight", "the ice was like broken dishes", etc.This gets tiresome very fast.Enough already!I get it-the ice is beautiful and it's cold. Too much of the same thing and too many metaphors detracts from the power of the whole.I wish Ehrlich would have put the metaphor-theasurus away for at least two consecutive pages.
I'm sure that to Ehrlich all of her endless trips across the ice are individual, but to me, they all sound the same.She could have cut out the descriptions of about 10 of the trips she made on the ice, which would have cut the book by 50-100 pages, and had a much more powerful account.Although I loved most of the book, I finally couldn't wait for it to end.She made something that was fascinating into an account that was, ultimately, boring and endless.

Excellent and well thought out book
Really interesting book regarding the Greenlander Inuit and one woman's journey through the region.I particularly like the inclusion of previous author's and explorer's interwoven in the story, as well as the raw authenticity of the author in terms of her experiences with the people, land and culture.

This Cold Heaven
I have enjoyed Ehrlich's writing style, very poetic descriptions about the ice and the people. She switches back and forth between her own experiences and historical expeditions, and the contrasts are interesting.

Eskimos as people, Greenland as a real place.
This amazing book opened my eyes to the Inuit culture and homeland in a most unexpected way. I really bought it hoping to learn something about Inuit kayak hunters, but that aspect of Inuit hunting life is not heavily covered in the book. Instead, the author takes us on many wonderful journeys by dogsled and gives the reader a most fascinating viewpoint - right behind the dogs. We experience the hard but thrilling life of the skilled Arctic hunter as described by an articulate passenger in the sled, and in that way we come to know the people of the north country in a most sympathetic way.

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Over the history of polar exploration towers one titanic father figure - Fridtjof Nansen. That a little known researcher in neurology from Bergen Museum was able to put together one of the first great journeys of exploration of our time is a tribute to the extraordinary force and magnetism of his personality. That he should show such extraordinary innovation in the use of sledges and skis, such attention to detail in areas such as diet and the make of sleeping bag is equally extraordinary. Although Nansen's success is overshadowed by the epic voyage of the Fram, his journey across Greenland in 1888 (eight attempts before him had failed) remains one of the most astonishing on record. Even the Eskimos were to regard his achievement in awe: '...now you will travel to the unknown world out there, you will possibly forget us among all the people, but we will never forget you.' On his return Nansen became a living legend - a third of the population of Oslo came out to greet him and he was awarded a sinecure for the rest of his life. His Greenland journey and the ensuring lecture tour inspired a surge in exploration across Europe.This, the first modern edition of The First Crossing of Greenland, removes the technical appendices, the historical sections on previous attempts to penetrate the ice field, and the detailed account of the Eskimos. The record of the incredible journey, however, remains intact. ... Read more

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Do not buy from this publisher
Do not buy from this publisher. The book looks like it was printed from Google Books on a home printer. It is missing half the book and all the pictures and the pages and paragraphs are not formatted properly. If you own a printer you are better off printing the PDF from Google Books. I am forced to return this book, even though I've been looking forward to reading it for weeks.

Skiing Across Greenland
Fridthof Nansen in this book did more to bring skiing to the larger world than any other individual. Until his Greenland crossing on skis, few outside of Norway, or Scandinavia at the most, had heard of skiing, although of course it had existed there for centuries. The early chapter of the book on skis and "skilobing" (skiing) is a marvelous account of the sport, and particularly of Sondre Norheim and the Telemarkers who revolutionized it as recreation.
Nansen writes the book in what can only be called a charming tone. He makes the crossing of the icecap seem easy, and indeed, most of the harrowing detail of the expedition relates to the efforts of the party after being dropped off at sea on the east coast of Greenland, through the ice floes with great difficulty, to an eventual landing and a hard climb up to the central ice plateau. There is also considerable detail given about the way of life of the Eskimo and Danish inhabitants of the Greenland west coast, where Nansen and his party overwintered after the crossing.
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Originally published in 1898.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Home to the musk oxen, narwhal, polar bear, and raven, Greenland—the earth"s largest island—seems to hold the magic and mystery of the far north. What would it be like to visit there? To kayak along its remote shores, dogsled through its tundra, visit its tiny villages? With charming linoleum block prints, Kelly Dupre follows the long, difficult journey of two men. In simple words, she captures the tenacity and vitality of all that they see—and subtly reveals to children what can be learned from a place like Greenland. ... Read more

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My 17 month old loves this book!
The story is simple and sweet. Our young son loves the artwork and is pretty well engaged when we read him this story. This book was only a few dollars for the library binding, just amazing! It's worth the purchase!!

A very simple story...
Lonnie Dupre grew up dreaming about the Artic and its people.As an adult, with a friend, he goes on a 3,200 mile journey around Greenland.Its cold and dark and lonely.Both men sometimes wonder if it is all worth it.Yet right when Lonnie feels like it's just too hard he is visited by a Raven.
The Raven is a tough bird and one from myth and legend.It gives him a stone which seems to remind him of why he was doing all this to begin with.His dreams.
The story is very short and the artwork is very simple, great for a young child interested in the Raven or the Artic, but not very detailed. ... Read more

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Critical Thinking about Geography: United States, Canada, and Greenland has 15 lessons that engage students in opportunities to practice and apply the geography skills and concepts they are learning. Sample topics include
Reading a Political Map
The Effects of Human Activity on Salmon Populations
Exploring Economic Resources
Connections between Culture and Geography
Geographic Factors Affecting the Population Density
The 29 maps in the book serve as a springboard for discussion, classroom activities, and further research. Activities are designed to take 20-30 minutes each.
A debriefing discussion after each map lesson provides an opportunity for students to reflect on their experiences and synthesize their thinking. It also provides an additional opportunity for informal assessment to assist instructional planning. Each book includes a fully searchable CD-ROM of the contents.
For geography classes, or to complement social studies, world culture, and world history curricula, Critical Thinking about Geography: United States, Canada, and Greenland prepares students for skills they will need in the 21st century. Addressing National Geography Standards, this title is ideal for whole class, small group, or individual instruction. ... Read more

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1897 volume contains accounts of early seventeenth-century expeditions to Greenland, two Danish (but piloted by the Englishman John Hall), and one led by Hall himself, with William Baffin as pilot. This is the first publication of Hall's report to the Danish king, illustrated with four maps from the 1605 expedition, which had only recently been rediscovered. The object of the expeditions was to re-establish communication with, and commercial exploitation of, what had formerly been a fertile region colonised by the Danes. ... Read more

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What happened?
The author explains what may have happened to the Greenland settlement colonized by the Icelanders and Norwegians, and which by about 1500 had ceased.Who, why and how it was colonized, and later on the conditions and European events that affected it.Well written and hard to put down.

Fascinating exploration of obscure but important subject
At the bottom of what most of Western Europe considered the Dark Ages, around 1000 AD, the Norse people had their moment in the historical sun.They produced the Vikings, an extraordinary group of sea raiders who pillaged, traded and colonized all the way from Sicily to Normandy and from Ireland to Moscow.

The furthest out to sea they got, in genuine new exploration was to Iceland, Greenland and, briefly, to North America.This book is concerned with the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, and their aftermath.This subject is a historical puzzle, because, other than Iceland, which survives to the present day, these colonies all died out.The North American colonies lasted only very briefly.The Greenland colonies lasted for almost 500 years, but they also died out, sometime around 1500.

What happened to these colonies?Why did the Norse have the energy and the initiative to get this far, but then lose energy so much that the colonies died?The usual explanation is climatic.The Norse settled Greenland toward the end of the Medieval Warm Period, and then died out as the Little Ice Age set in.

Seaver notes the change in climate, which was real.She does not buy it, however, as the sole or primary explanation for the death of the Greenland colonies.She stresses some very puzzling archeological evidence that the colonists did not starve to death or get killed by Eskimos.Rather, this evidence suggests that the last colonists left, carefully and deliberately taking their sacred objects with them.In this book, Seaver explores the other possible reasons why the colonies died.She does not argue for any one clear explanation.Rather, she explores a bunch of fascinating ideas, most of which can not be fleshed out fully due to the fragmentary nature of the historical and archeological evidence.

One clear factor is that the Norse homeland just lost interest in the whole thing.Norway was taken over by a dynasty of strong kings, who spent most of their time trying to conquer the nations around them.Their main interest in Greenland (and Iceland, for that matter) was to make sure that no other nations were able to trade with them.These trade restrictions cut off a lot of the contact these colonies would otherwise have had with theoutside world.Of course, as Seaver explores, there were smugglers, illegal traders and many whose ships conveniently "drifted" to Greenland when they were officially going somewhere legal.

Seaver explores at some length the connections between Greenland the later voyages of John Cabot.She thinks that the English did a good deal of trading with Iceland and Greenland, most of it under the table.She thinks that they built up knowledge of the area.She thinks it is possible that the Greenland colony did not die, but (when the climate got pretty bad) were persuaded to leave en masse and try to settle in Cabot's discoveries in North America.It is an interesting idea.If it is true, however, then these people died out, not in Greenland, but in some godforsaken part of northern Canada.

I recommend this book to those interestedin scholarly puzzles.Seaver is a careful scholar, who likes to discuss her evidence in detail.

Well Researched and Well Written
This is a very well-written intellectual piece tracing Greenland colonies from establishment, to explorations of North America, and subsequently, their disappearance.

The author portrays a history of over five centuries and has made discoveries that other researchers have missed.The author's conclusions are solid, however rather than sticking to solely historical facts, she speculates slightly on political issues.Nevertheless, the bulk of the book is thoroughly researched and well presented.An interesting read and a great way to learn some history as it is a book that is difficult to put down once you start.

The Norse in Greenland
Author Seaver seems to have ramsacked the archives of Iceland and Norway to compile a thorough history of five centuries of Norse settlement in Greenland, including the famous and ill-fated Norse effort to establish a colony in North America about 1000 AD.There are enough Olafs and Sigrids here to people Lake Wobegone. The author is apparently Scandinavian -- or speaks Icelandic and medieval Norwegian -- and is thus able to dig deeper than most authors on this topic. She presents her findings in dry professorial prose that may tell some readers more than they really want to know about the internal politics of the North Atlantic back in medieval times.

The great mystery is, of course, why did the Norse colonies in Greenland disappear and when?A worsening climate, Innuit attacks, inbreeding, and isolation have all been cited as reasons.I won't reveal the author's conclusion except to say that she theorizes the Norse survived longer in Greenland -- perhaps after 1500 -- than most scholars believe.The most interesting and original part of the book for me was her examination of the important role of traders and cod fisherman from the English port of Bristol in the exploration of the North Atlantic in the 15th century.She makes a good case that these sailors might have reached the New World a few years before Columbus -- but like good fishermen everywhere kept their favorite fishing holes secret.

All in all, this is a well-researched scholarly history with just enough learned speculation to keep a history and exploration buff reading on. It's the kind of book that -- if you're really, really a fanatic -- you could read a second time and benefit from many small points you missed on the first reading.

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A great "whodunit" regarding the lost Greenland colonies.
Was it the Thule Eskimos attacking the Norse Greenland colonies whichcause these groups of hardy descendants of Vikings to fall off the map ofthe North Atlantic after 1408?Was it changes in climate that caused themto move?Where then did they go?Was it the fishing vessels of unfriendlyforeign powers or neglect from the homeland which cause these settlementsto fail?This well-written scholarly work is difficult to put down as ittraces the Greenland colonies from their establishment through theirexplorations of North America until their existance was"forgotten" by the Western World.Drawing on the latest works inarcheology, medieval studies, and related scientific fields, this bookprovides illuminating insight into a unique culture on the edge of theknown world and its final destiny. ... Read more