The Age of Leif Ericsson (Exploration Through the Ages S.)

by Richard Hook (Illustrator), Richard Humble (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.25

  Part of a series that tells the stories of important voyages of discovery, describing the challenges and hardships faced by those who set out to discover new lands. This book describes the Viking ocean exploration and colonization of the lands discovered: first to the Hebrides, Orkneys, Shetlands and Faroes, and then to Iceland and how Greenland was colonized by Eric the Red , and the historic voyage of his son Leif Eriksson, the first recorded European to set foot on the North American continent. Life aboard ship and in the spartan Viking colonies is vividly evoked through detailed fullcolour artwork, supplemented by photographs of Viking artefacts and historical sites.