Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus: Medieval European Knowledge of America

by James Robert Enterline

Book Overview

How did medieval Europeans have such specific geographic knowledge of North America, a land even their most daring adventurers had not yet discovered? In Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus, James Robert Enterline presents new evidence that traces this knowledge to the cartographic skills of indigenous people of the high Arctic, who, he contends, provided the basis for medieval maps of large parts of North America. Drawing on an exhaustive chronological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801878950
• ISBN13: 9780801878954
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher