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The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, c.A.D.1000-1500 (Paperback)

by Kirsten A. Seaver (Author)
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  • Paperback: 428 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press; New edition edition (31 Dec 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0804731616
  • ISBN-13: 978-0804731614
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.4 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 803,235 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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0;Of major importance, this book fills a serious gap in scholarly studies of European expansion. It brings new understandings to the relationships between Norse discoveries and the great voyages of Renaissance discovery in the North Atlantic. Furthermore, it is fascinating reading, written in a lively and very readable style. It should interest the general public and amateur historians as well as scholars.1;2;Dr. Helen Walls, British Map Library, British Museum

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It is now generally accepted that Leif Eiriksson 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 archaeological, scientific and documentary information, this book confronts head-on many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonisation along the shores of the Davis Strait. The author brings together two distinct fields of inquiry: the history of medieval Greenland and its connection with the Norse discovery of North America, and fifteenth-century British maritime history and pre-colonial voyages to North America, including that of John Cabot.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent and up-to-date work on a fascinating story, 1 April 1998
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This review is from: Frozen Echo, The: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, c.A.D.1000-1500 (Hardcover)
The story of Norse Greenland, the settlement at the end of the earth, and its disappearance, has fascinated scholars and laypeople for 500 years.

Kirsten Seaver has produced the best and most readable work on the subject in 50 years, incorporating the large amount of very recent study being done in the field with acute insight and a clear narrative.

(Although it means there is not much point in me writing my book on the subject :( )

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