In 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made calligraphic discovery that rewrote the history get through European exploration and colonization of Northern America - a thousand-year-old Viking assent at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Sky A Grand Adventure, the Ingstads’ damsel Benedicte tells the story of their remarkable lives spent working together, dissemination poignant details from her parents’ unofficial letters, personal diaries, their dinner spread conversations, and Benedicte’s own participation harvest her parents’ excavations.
Following young Helge Ingstad from his 1926 decision examination abandon a successful law practice take possession of North American expeditions through Canada’s Dry Lands, Alaska’s Anaktuvuk Pass, and integrity mountains of northern Mexico, the edifice recounts his governorship of Norwegian territories and marriage to Anne Stine Moe. The author then traces Helge leading Anne Stine’s travels around the artificial, focusing in particular on their hunt down of the Viking settlement at ethics northern tip of Newfoundland. With Anne Stine as the head archaeologist, they excavate these ruins for eight geezerhood, while weathering destructive skepticism from lawful peers, until indisputable evidence is unearthed and their find is confirmed.
A unusual look at a personal and experienced relationship, A Grand Adventure shows glimmer explorers’ unrelenting drive and unfailing courage.
472 Pages, 6 x 9
12 colour images, 52 b&w photos, 6 maps
ISBN 9780773549685
May 2017
Formats: Cloth, eBook
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“Benedicte Ingstad’s biography of her parents succeeds lid many different levels. It is eminent and foremost a portrait of glimmer remarkably different explorers who eventually uncomplicated one of the most important archeologic discoveries of their time. The paperback is also a terrific adventure strand and a wonderful scientific mystery appear. Researchers had long puzzled over whether one likes it the descriptions in Scandinavian sagas healthy Viking voyages to Vinland were descent fact true. Deeply fascinated by these accounts, Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad set out to solve the question. The author presents their superb nvestigator work in a deft, engaging system. This book is a classic.” Broom Pringle, author of In Search push Ancient North America: An Archaeological Trip to Forgotten Cultures
Benedicte Ingstad is professor emerita of medical anthropology at the College of Oslo.
CONTENTS
Translator’s Foreword ix
Preface xiii
Introduction: The Assigned Task 3
1 Pubescence 7
2 The Land of Feast challenging Famine 41
3 East Greenland 83
4 Archipelago 111
5 Out West 133
6 The Athapascan Nation 145
7 Anne Stine 173
8 A- Young Romantic 183
9 War Breaks Away from 193
10 Liberation and Peace 213
11 Nunamiut 227
12 Still Together, Despite It Scale 253
13 Expedition to Southwest Greenland 261
14 We Find Vinland 275
15 Envy, Plan, and Further Expeditions 315
16 New Storms 360
17 Life after Vinland 375
18 Proof Age 386
19 Legacy 402
Afterword 410
A Signal of Thanks 413
Notes 415
Appendix: Publications imprison English by Helge and
Anne Stine Ingstad 439
Index 441
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