Description
Replete with color photographs, drawings, and maps of Viking sites, artifacts, and landscapes, this book celebrates and explores the Viking saga from the combined perspectives of history, archaeology, oral tradition, literature, and natural science. The book's contributors chart the spread of marauders and traders in Europe as well as the expansion of farmers and explorers throughout the North Atlantic and into the New World. They show that Norse contacts with Native American groups were more extensive than has previously been believed, but that the outnumbered Europeans never established more than temporary settlements in North America.
Author: William F. Fitzhugh
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Published: 04/17/2000
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.41lbs
Size: 10.84h x 8.72w x 0.97d
ISBN13: 9781560989950
ISBN10: 1560989955
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Nordic Countries
- History | Expeditions & Discoveries
- History | United States | General
Author: William F. Fitzhugh
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Published: 04/17/2000
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.41lbs
Size: 10.84h x 8.72w x 0.97d
ISBN13: 9781560989950
ISBN10: 1560989955
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Nordic Countries
- History | Expeditions & Discoveries
- History | United States | General
About the Author
WILLIAM W. FITZHUGH is the director of the Arctic Studies Center and curator in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. ELISABETH WARD is a curatorial specialist of the Vikings exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.