The farfarers : before the Norse
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South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press ;, [2000].
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First paperback edition.
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xiv, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Published
South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press ;, [2000].
Format
Book
Edition
First paperback edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"First published in 1998 in Canada by Key Porter Books"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-354) and index.
Description
MYSTERIOUS LONGHOUSES in the Arctic, ancient stone beacons in Newfoundland - are they evidence of Europeans who crossed the Atlantic before A.D. 1000? Farley Mowat advances a controversial new theory about the first visitors to North America. Mowat's Westviking: The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America (1965) was highly influential in helping to establish the belief, now commonly held, that the Norse visited North America some 500 years before Columbus. And yet "a worm of unease" plagued Mowat even then, a vague feeling that he hadn't gotten it quite right. He spent the next 30 years in search of a theory that would explain inconsistencies in the archaeological evidence (such as carbon-dated ruins not left by the Inuit, but that predated the arrival of Vikings in Newfoundland by hundreds of years). Now in The Farfarers he asserts that another Indo-European people he calls the "Alban" preceded the Norse by several centuries. Throughout The Farfarers, Mowat skillfully weaves fictional vignettes of Alban life into his thoughtful reconstruction of a forgotten history. What emerges is a bold and dramatic panorama of a harsher age: an age of death-dealing warships and scanty food supply, of long, cold journeys across the night sea into unknown lands.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mowat, F. (2000). The farfarers: before the Norse (First paperback edition.). Steerforth Press ;.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mowat, Farley. 2000. The Farfarers: Before the Norse. Steerforth Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mowat, Farley. The Farfarers: Before the Norse Steerforth Press, 2000.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mowat, Farley. The Farfarers: Before the Norse First paperback edition., Steerforth Press ;, 2000.
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