false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg 1631447 4 Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman's last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the sagas suggested it could be. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid's steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned - and expanded - the bounds of the then-known world. She also sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her and illuminates the reasons for its collapse. 1625616 2007 The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman total:85|5:19|4:33|3:25|2:5|1:3| 85 315 223 43 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 4 1 false Sun May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 17:59:45 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 16:08:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 4 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 11 14:15:43 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 00:42:55 -0800 2007
Still, this book was ...more...]]> 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 4 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 18:13:18 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 18:16:21 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 0 0 false Sat Apr 11 21:15:15 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 21:21:18 -0700 2009
Oddly, I wasn't as troubled by a lack of diagrams, etc as others--either I'd seen such diagrams in other sources, or I got hold of an edition that had them. But then...more...]]> 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 4 0 false Sat Aug 15 12:38:59 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 15:02:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 5 0 false Fri Apr 17 10:27:16 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 10:29:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 4 0 false Sat Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 18:47:12 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 18:53:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 06 00:24:07 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 00:35:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2273001 0156033976 9780156033978 3 4 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2273001.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 5 0 false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 18:36:44 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 20:54:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 4 1 false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 18 07:38:23 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 10 09:02:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 4 0 false Tue Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 18 08:07:26 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 02 08:21:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 4 0 false Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 10:53:19 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 11:04:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2325022 1 1 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2325022.The_Far_Traveler 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 14 08:58:09 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 08 05:44:06 -0800 2008 Times review was irresistible and the book bore out as a different kind of history. The author explores the Viking Age through a character from the Icelandic and Greenland sagas, which are, essentially, embroidered histories of the 10th and 11th centuries. Gudrid, a woman, can be documented as ...more...]]> 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 5 0 false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 15:11:56 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 08:28:12 -0700 2009 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 15 07:28:37 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 19 15:04:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2273001 0156033976 9780156033978 3 4 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2273001.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 3 0 false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 15 04:56:29 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 09 18:07:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2273001 0156033976 9780156033978 3 4 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2273001.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 5 0 false Mon Jun 15 12:12:30 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 12:13:24 -0700 2009 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 09:30:05 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 09:35:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2273001 0156033976 9780156033978 3 4 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2273001.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 0 0 false Sun Aug 23 08:03:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 12:02:54 -0700 2009 1631447 015101440X 9780151014408 81 38 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186116190m/1631447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1631447.The_Far_Traveler_Voyages_of_a_Viking_Woman 5 0 false Sat Apr 11 13:08:02 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 13:08:27 -0700 2009 Being a viking myself, I loved it.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1631447