Leif Eriksson (Biography from Ancient Civilizations)

Earle Rice Jr.

ISBN 10: 158415702X ISBN 13: 9781584157021

Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

Leif Eriksson is arguably the best known of all those fierce, seafaring adventurers known as Vikings. His renown eclipses even that of his father, Erik the Red, the founder of Greenland. In 1000 CE, Leif seized fame and an enduring place in history as the first European to land in North America almost 500 years before Columbus discovered the New World. On his historic voyage, Erik s son backtracked on a course followed by another Viking fifteen years earlier. In a frail, all-purpose merchant vessel known as a knörr, Leif sailed northward along Greenland s west coast, crossed the frigid waters of present-day Baffin Bay, and turned southward to what is generally believed to be Newfoundland. There, Leif established the first European colony on the North American continent. Find out about his family s murderous history, and what it took to brave the icy waters and stormy lands of the North Atlantic during the Viking Age.

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About the Author

Earle Rice Jr. is a former senior design engineer and technical writer in the aerospace, electronic-defense, and nuclear industries. He has devoted full time to his writing since 1993 and is the author of more than fifty published books, including A Brief Political and Geographic History of Latin America: Where Are Gran Colombia, La Plata, and Dutch Guiana?, Blitzkrieg! Hitler s Lightning War, The Life and Times of Erik the Red, and Canaletto for Mitchell Lane Publishers. Earle is listed in Who s Who in America and is a member of the Society of Children s Book Writers and Illustrators, the League of World War I Aviation Historians, the Air Force Association, and the Disabled American Veterans.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 158415702X
• ISBN 13: 9781584157021
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 48