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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Vanished Settlers of Greenland: In Search of a Legend and Its Legacydi Robert W. Rix
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For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in the end a shifting climate. The remnants they left behind speak of their determination to wrest an existence at the foot of this vast, icy and challenging wilderness. Yet finally, seemingly suddenly, they vanished; and their mysterious disappearance in the fifteenth century has posed a riddle to scholars ever since. What happened to the lost Viking colonists? For centuries people assumed their descendants could still be living, so expeditions went to find them: to no avail. Robert Rix tells the gripping story of the missing pioneers, placing their poignant history in the context of cultural discourse and imperial politics. Ranging across fiction, poetry, navigation, reception and tales of exploration, he expertly delves into one of the most contested questions in the annals of colonization. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This volume is the result of incredibly meticulous research complete with understanding of the way in which different European countries vied for the riches they perceived as belonging to the largest island in the world and the indigenous peoples inhabiting all of the frozen North. There are visual reproductions which suffer in the electronic version but all of the books and articles used in the research are fully documented. This is a fantastic resource in itself for scholars and aficionados alike. I geek history and Pop was born in Norway, so of course I am biased.
I requested and received an EARC from Cambridge University Press via NetGalley. Thank you! ( )