Eric the Red Hb-Bth

By Anne Millard

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811472523
• ISBN13: 9780811472524
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Raintree
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.9" x 11.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

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Eric The Red The Vikings Sail The Atlantic by Anne Millard

Description from the book back cover: This book looks at explorers whose discoveries helped to change the world, and together they chart the course of 1,000 years of seafaring, exploration and discovery. This book describes the background to this amazing journey, focusing on the economic pressures and technological advances which combined to make this possible. The book also examines the native societies that the explorers encountered, and assess the impact of their discoveries at home and abroad. The Vikings are known as seafaring warriors, but many of their great sea journeys were made to find new land to farm and new markets to trade with. At the end of the 10th century, Eric the Red sailed from Norway and found Greenland, and persuaded other Vikings to settle there. His son Leif was probably the first European to set foot on American soil. This book follows these and other Vikings across the Atlantic and to the Mediterranean, and traces the history of their settlements, including the discovery in the 19th century of many fake artifacts said to prove the Viking sagas. The text is beautifully illustrated with photographs,artwork, maps and contemporary drawings and paintings.