Viking America: The Norse Crossings and Their Legacy

By James Robert Enterline

Book Overview

How did the Vikings get to America before Columbus, and how did that affect history? Was "Vinland" a land of grape vines or a land of pastures? Was Columbus's theory of Asia in the West informed by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385025858
• ISBN13: 9780385025850
• Release Date: August 1972
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Well written, backs up supposition with historical documents

I found this book to be incredibly readable. Despite his background as a scientist Enterline writes in an academic narrative that makes him easily understood and his references easily checked. Enterline goes further than previous writers on the topic; suggesting not only Norse discovery of America, but their continued presence there. This book is now quite old and Enterlines sources for the most part were similarly old then, so its relevance as source for study has quite diminished. Fortunately a follow up book seems to be scheduled for publication in 2001 which I very much look forward to.