Author: Philip (Uncle)
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Category : Greenland
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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The Lost Greenland; Or, Uncle Philip's Conversations with the Children about the Lost Colonies of Greenland
Author: Philip (Uncle)
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Category : Greenland
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Publisher:
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Category : Greenland
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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The Vanished Settlers of Greenland
Author: Robert Rix
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009359460
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to wrest an existence at the foot of this vast, icy and challenging wilderness. Yet finally, seemingly suddenly, they vanished; and their mysterious disappearance in the fifteenth century has posed a riddle to scholars ever since. What happened to the lost Viking colonists? For centuries people assumed their descendants could still be living, so expeditions went to find them: to no avail. Robert Rix tells the gripping story of the missing pioneers, placing their poignant history in the context of cultural discourse and imperial politics. Ranging across fiction, poetry, navigation, reception and tales of exploration, he expertly delves into one of the most contested questions in the annals of colonization.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009359460
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to wrest an existence at the foot of this vast, icy and challenging wilderness. Yet finally, seemingly suddenly, they vanished; and their mysterious disappearance in the fifteenth century has posed a riddle to scholars ever since. What happened to the lost Viking colonists? For centuries people assumed their descendants could still be living, so expeditions went to find them: to no avail. Robert Rix tells the gripping story of the missing pioneers, placing their poignant history in the context of cultural discourse and imperial politics. Ranging across fiction, poetry, navigation, reception and tales of exploration, he expertly delves into one of the most contested questions in the annals of colonization.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Means and Ends
Author: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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First Principles of Natural Philosophy
Author: James Renwick
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Harper's Illustrated Catalogue of Valuable Standard Works in the Several Departments of General Literature
Author: Harper & Brothers
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Illustrated Catalogue of ... General Literature ...
Author: Harper & Brothers
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Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Harper's illustrated catalogue of valuable standard works, in the several departments of general literature
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Zanoni
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton 1st baron Lytton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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American Biography
Author: Jeremy Belknap
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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