Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Published: 04/17/2000
ISBN: 9781560989950
Pages: 404
Weight: 3.41lbs
Size: 10.84h x 8.72w x 0.97d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2000 pg. 165
Booklist 06/01/2000 pg. 1847
Library Journal 08/01/2000 pg. 127
New York Review of Books 04/11/2002 pg. 36
Library Journal 08/09/2000