Madoc

By Pat DeGraw Winter

Book Overview

A.D. 1170-Embittered by the tyranny of the English monarchy, Welsh prince Madoc sailed with ships of settlers across the Western Ocean in search of a new home. Three centuries before Columbus, he... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553282778
• ISBN13: 9780553282771
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Domain
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

An Archaeologist Reviews MADOC and MADOC?S HUNDRED

Pat Winter's first two novels of The Madoc Saga take inspiration from the legend that a Welsh prince set sail to colonize North America in the twelfth century A.D., the Medieval period in Britain and the Mississippian period in most of the Southeast. Whether such a voyage can be proven to have taken place is irrelevant to the novelist. How thoroughly and vividly the novelist can recreate the Middle Ages in North America is very relevant to...(archaeologists)...reflecting both the state of our data and the effectiveness of our presentation of what we think we know... Some of us who work on the front lines of public education in archaeology often wonder if we are really making any headway, or less pessimistically, whether there is a bigger audience out there than we are reaching...I think that the Madoc series is the best fictional recreation of the late prehistoric Southeast that I have ever read. We may argue some details, cringe occasionally at fictional license, but we should learn from the successes and ponder the points of disagreement that these two novels embody. And if, suddenly, we spend a moment seeing a village rather than a pile of shreds, Winter has done us a favor as well. -Kit Wesler, director Wickliffe Mounds, Kentucky, from his review in Southeastern Archaeology, Vol. II, No. 2, Winter 1992, by the Southeastern Archaeological Conference

I enjoyed a new approach to early European settlement of U.S

This book struck a chord with me because of my interest in early American exploration and settlement. I have been waiting for the third volume in the series(I believe it might be called "Songs of the Big Canoe") but wonder if it will ever be in print. For very early American history buffs this book can really "jumpstart" your imagination about the excitement of being among the first outsiders to visit America. What is Pat Winter doing now?