The Far Traveler

di Nancy Marie Brown (Autore)

Eva Kaminsky (Narratore)

Mariner Books, 2023

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 also 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. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

• Autore: Nancy Marie Brown
• Narratore: Eva Kaminsky
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 09:38:35
• Anno edizione: 2023
• Editore: Mariner Books
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9780063283480