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Helge Ingstad; trans. Erik J. Frijs.
Westward to Vinland: The Discovery of Pre-Columbian Norse House-sites in North America.
Published London: Book Club Associates, 1974 (previously issued by Jonathan Cape, 1969).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Lowe & Brydone, Thetford.
Size: 158×234×29mm.
Page count: 250pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is somewhat ragged at the edges, with some discoloration and foxing; some foxing throughout, especially at the page edges, otherwise the book itself looks in generally good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.50
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Weight without packaging: 642g.
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Contents: Way to the west; Old mss tell of Vinland the Good; Ships & the sea; Greenlanders' Saga; Eirik the Red’s Saga; Sailing info & topographical descriptions in the sagas; Grapes & skraelings; Old maps & other pre-Columbian voyages; Along the coast of North America; Discovery; First flight over Labrador; With the Halten along the north coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence; L’Anse aux Meadows — excavations begin; Land & people; To the 'wonder beaches' of the saga; Coast of Labrador — large house-site discovered; Northenmost Labrador; Visit to the Nascapi; New expedition — smithy discovered; Excavations continue — journey to White Bay; Norse spindle-whorl; The far wanderers.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 3 text figures, 40 pages of plates, illustrated endpapers, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 8
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 7pp
Index: yes

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