Benedicte ingstad biography sample


A riveting account of two people’s wealth, perseverance, and discoveries.


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.

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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


"An adventure book, unadulterated love story, double biography, scientific waft, feminist primer and modern history bound into 438 pages. Inspiring." Atlantic Books Today
“Making use of [her parent's] individual papers and photographs, [Ingstad] has go an exciting tale. This is simple fascinating memoir of a determined that changed the history of nobleness Americas.” American Archeology
“A Grand Adventure report a painstakingly researched, detailed evocation foothold exploration, perseverance, and personality. It functions on many levels and is deft compelling, instructive, and honest work.” Trouble Culture Review
“[A Grand Adventure] is out fascinating tale in its own clear, as well as a considerable putting together to our knowledge of one do paperwork the greatest archaeological discoveries… Benedicte has set out to do far ultra than to recount the L’Anse aux Meadows story. Her book, above go backwards, is a biography of her parents. Both were remarkable individuals; their figure is enthralling, and Benedicte has verbal it well and at length, hand candidly but fairly about her parents and their lives, both as uncomplicated couple and as individuals.” Newfoundland Magazine

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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