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

A gripping account of one of the most contested questions in colonial history: what became of Greenland's vanished Viking settlers?

Presents evidence of early Norse settlement in Greenland and North America • Explores in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were inhabited for nearly 5

Norwegian explorer reconstructs all aspects of life in Norse communities founded by Eirik the Red about 1000 A.D.

"In 1845, Sir John Franklin commanded two ships on an expedition to find a Northwest Passage from England through the Arctic and over to Asia. If successful, th