Author: SKELTON, R. A; MARSTON, THOMAS E; PAINTER, GEORGE D.
Title: The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation. With a foreword by Alexander O. Vietor.
Description: Fourth Printing; Med. 4to; pp. xii, 291; 20 plates of maps and illustrations some folding, 10 figures, bibliography, indexes, bound in original red boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket damaged and chipped, internally very good. New Haven and London; Yale University Press; April 1966. An examination of the evidence concerning the Viking discovery of North America in the tenth and eleventh centuries from two documents copied about 1440 from much earlier originals, now lost. The first is an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols in 1245-47. The second is a world map, including the western ocean, with delineations of Iceland, Greenland, and a land mass named Vinland which represents the North American mainland as known to the medieval Norsemen.
Keywords: cartography vikings north america discovery exploration maritime
Title: The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation. With a foreword by Alexander O. Vietor.
Description: Fourth Printing; Med. 4to; pp. xii, 291; 20 plates of maps and illustrations some folding, 10 figures, bibliography, indexes, bound in original red boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket damaged and chipped, internally very good. New Haven and London; Yale University Press; April 1966. An examination of the evidence concerning the Viking discovery of North America in the tenth and eleventh centuries from two documents copied about 1440 from much earlier originals, now lost. The first is an account of Friar John of Plano Carpini's mission to the Mongols in 1245-47. The second is a world map, including the western ocean, with delineations of Iceland, Greenland, and a land mass named Vinland which represents the North American mainland as known to the medieval Norsemen.
Keywords: cartography vikings north america discovery exploration maritime
Price: AUD 75.00 = appr. US$ 51.89 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 114214
- Book number: 114214