The Far Traveler by Nancy Marie Brown

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
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buy now "... [a] snappily written biography of a time and place. ... Brown pursues Gudrid out of admiration for a woman bold and wise. I eagerly pursued this book, which is as much about Brown's adventures as Gudrid's, for the very same reasons." "... a brilliant piece of scholarship which I'll use in my first-year seminar, Icelandic Sagas, this winter." "... a marvelously sneaky history of the Viking mind. A nimble synthesis of the literary and the scientific that will charm even readers who didn't know they were interested." "...a wonderful, fluently written tale about an intelligent and tough culture in an unforgiving climate... A real education about the Norse and about how to think about ancient cultures and archaeology" "... Who needs fantasy? The Far Traveler* makes historical reality every bit as fascinating."* more reviews
	Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman's last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the sagas suggested it could be. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid's steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world. She sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her ... and illuminates the reasons for its collapse. Read the Reviews Meet the Author, Read an Interview, or Download a Podcast Read an Excerpt from the Prologue to The Far Traveler View Photos from Gudrid's World Enlarge the Map by Jeffery Mathison Buy a first edition copy of The Far Traveler in hardcover
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