At the Edge of the World

Stewart Ross

Description

Mixing fiction with facts

Sujets

• Exploration
• History
• Fiction
• HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
• Viking

Informations

• Publié par: Read Zone
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781783227709
• Langue: English

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AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
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AT THE EDGE
OF THE WORLD
Stewart Ross
CONTENTS
TO THE READER

THE STORY SO FAR

TIME LINE

Chapter 1   | THE CHALLENGE
In the Greenland settlement of Brattalid, Erik the Red boasts of his great deeds.

Chapter 2   | ERIKLAND!
Leif, Erik’s son, tells how he has been to the court of King Olaf of Norway and returned to Brattalid with good news.

Chapter 3   | OCEAN AND MORE OCEAN
Leif explains how he has rescued two shipwrecked men from a mysterious ‘land at the edge of the world’.

Chapter 4   | THE REJECTION
Leif plans to prove his father wrong by taking him to the land at the edge of the world. Nansun, the best navigator in all Greenland, refuses to go with them.

Chapter 5   | AMBER AND GOLD
Leif’s wife Thorgunna has a chat with Nansun’s young wife, Waiola.

Chapter 6   | 120 SILVER PENNIES
Nansun joins the expedition. Leif gathers his crew, buys a boat and gets everything ready for the voyage.

Chapter 7   | DOOMED!
Erik the Red falls from his horse as he is riding down to the boat. He says this is a bad omen and the expedition is doomed.

Chapter 8   | AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
Guided by Nansun, Leif and his crew reach the mysterious new land. They find it rich and fruitful, and Leif declares it to be a whole New World.

THE HISTORY FILE

NEW WORDS
TO THE READER

At the edge of the world takes place in Greenland and North America over 1,000 years go. Leif, his father Erik the Red, and most of the other characters are real; a few, like Nansun the Navigator, are made up. The setting is also real and the voyages across the North Atlantic actually happened. By telling them as a story, I have tried to bring to life one of the most exciting adventures of all time.