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1) Runestone
Author
Language
English
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Description
They set sail from Norway, two swift-moving longships and their handpicked crews, following the route navigated by the legendary Leif Ericson. But for young shipmaster Nils Thorsson and his fellow Norsemen the real journey begins when they push on into the uncharted continent of Vinland.
There the explorers revel in the chance to penetrate a virgin land -until they trespass on the grounds of a primitive people who have seen enough of the
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Europeans arrived in North America, the average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia and its effects?famine, starvation, desperation, and violence?were stark among colonists unprepared to fend for themselves. This history of the Little Ice Age in North America reminds us of the risks of a changing and unfamiliar climate.
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