Westward to Vinland: The Discovery of Pre-columbian Norse House-sites in North America - First Harper Colophon Edition published in 1972

Westward to Vinland: The Discovery of Pre-columbian Norse House-sites in North America

Ingstad, Helge

Harper Colophon Books

London, Jonathan Cape, 1969, 8vo (cm. 23,5 x 16,5) legatura editoriale cartonato telato con fregi e titoli dorati al dorsoe sovraccopertina illustrata a colori, pp. 249 con 44 illustrazioni e tavole fotografiche nel testo (un adesivo all'occhiello e un timbro in fine di disciolta biblioteca) .

Westward to Vinland: The discovery of pre-Columbian Norse house-sites in North America

CAPE.

The Land of Feast and Famine

The young Norwegian was Helge Ingstad, now famous for his discovery in 1960 of a Viking village at L'Anse aux Meadows (on the northern tip of Newfoundland) -- the oldest known European settlement in North America. Ingstad recorded his adventures in the Canadian North in The Land of Feast and Famine, originally published in Norwegian in 1931 and first released in English two years later. Now, after being out of print in English for more than forty years, The Land of Feast and Famine is once again available, with its description of youthful adventure and its vivid portrayal of the people and ways of the Northwest Territories in the last days of the fur trading era. After making his way into the Canadian Arctic interior, Ingstad spent one winter with a fellow trapper in a log cabin they built themselves, and another living and hunting with a tribe of Inuit known as the Caribou-Eaters. During his final winter in the North, Ingstad lived in a tent in an area called the Barren Lands, hunting caribou and wolves, alone with his five dogs. In 1937, a small river in the Barren Lands was renamed Ingstad Creek. The life Ingstad describes is harsh and full of danger. He recounts many close calls of his own as well as the fates of those far less fortunate. On his way out of the North, Ingstad learned that the colourful adventurer John Hornby and two of his companions starved to death while on a expedition to the Barren Lands -- one of them outliving the others by months. But Ingstad's life in the Canadian Arctic was also full of heart-warming experiences. He describes the native companions and fellow trappers with whom he shared adventures and relates stories of numerous hunts and how he learned first hand about beaver, caribou, wolf, and other wildlife. He also provides a remarkable body of knowledge about native medicine. The arrival of the age of aviation opened up the North and, as Ingstad prophetically observed in 1931, the way of life of the native people, who were "still pursuing the free nomadic existence of their forefathers," would be irrevocably changed. At a time when the ways of life of Canada's native and Inuit people are more threatened than ever before, The Land of Feast and Famine provides a fascinating glimpse at a time already far in the past.

History

Americas

McGill-Queen's University Press

Available in English for the first time, The Apache Indians tells the story of the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad’s sojourn among the Apaches near the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona and his epic journey to locate the “lost” group of their brethren in the Sierra Madres in the 1930s. Ingstad traveled to Canada, where he lived as a trapper for four years with the Chipewyan Indians. The Chipewyans told him tales about people from their tribe who traveled south, never to return. He decided to go south to find the descendants of his Chipewyan friends and determine if they had similar stories. In 1936 Ingstad arrived in the White Mountains and worked as a cowboy with the Apaches. His hunch about the Apaches’ northern origins was confirmed by their stories, but the elders also told him about another group of Apaches who had fled from the reservation and were living in the Sierra Madres in Mexico. Ingstad launched an expedition on horseback to find these “lost” people, hoping to record more tales of their possible northern origin but also to document traditions and knowledge that might have been lost among the Apaches living on the reservation.Through Ingstad’s keen and observant eyes, we catch unforgettable glimpses of the landscape and inhabitants of the southwestern borderlands as he and his Apache companions, including one of Geronimo’s warriors, embark on a dangerous quest to find the elusive Sierra Madre Apaches. The Apache Indians is a powerful echo of a past that has now become a myth.

The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe

University Of Nebraska Press

Available in English for the first time, The Apache Indians tells the story of the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad’s sojourn among the Apaches near the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona and his epic journey to locate the “lost” group of their brethren in the Sierra Madres in the 1930s. 
Ingstad traveled to Canada, where he lived as a trapper for four years with the Chipewyan Indians. The Chipewyans told him tales about people from their tribe who traveled south, never to return. He decided to go south to find the descendants of his Chipewyan friends and determine if they had similar stories. In 1936 Ingstad arrived in the White Mountains and worked as a cowboy with the Apaches. His hunch about the Apaches’ northern origins was confirmed by their stories, but the elders also told him about another group of Apaches who had fled from the reservation and were living in the Sierra Madres in Mexico. Ingstad launched an expedition on horseback to find these “lost” people, hoping to record more tales of their possible northern origin but also to document traditions and knowledge that might have been lost among the Apaches living on the reservation.
Through Ingstad’s keen and observant eyes, we catch unforgettable glimpses of the landscape and inhabitants of the southwestern borderlands as he and his Apache companions, including one of Geronimo’s warriors, embark on a dangerous quest to find the elusive Sierra Madre Apaches. The Apache Indians is a powerful echo of a past that has now become a myth.

Bison Books

Provides an account of the seven expeditions the authors made to L'Anse aux Meadows between 1961 and 1968, where they located and excavated the remains of several house sites which were carbon-dated to around year 1000 A.D.

The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland

Ingstad, Anne Stine

World

Checkmark Books

A special commemorative edition of a classic text by one of the foremost experts on Arctic lands and peoples. In 1949 Helge Ingstad flew into Northern Alaska where the Nunamiut people, a caribou-hunting group, resided. Ingstad was the first Westerner to visit the region. After living with the Nunamiut for nine months, such was the admiration for Ingstad that they wanted to name a beautiful mountain in their territory after him. And, in the 50+ years since then the mountain has been known locally as Ingstad Mountain. When Ingstad passed away in 2001 at the age of 101, a petition was made to the U.S. Geological Survey to officially name the mountain after Ingstad. In 2006 Ingstad Mountain officially enters the U.S. Geological Survey maps.Nunamiut is Ingstad's fascinating account of that nine-month visit with the Nunamiut. He learned their language, recorded their legends and superstitions, and participated in their caribou hunts and fishing expeditions. His personal account is an engrossing and original work. 45 black &amp; white photographs, 21 black &amp; white illustrations, index.

Nunamuit: Among Alaska's Inland Eskimos

Travel

Countryman Press

Faced with harsh conditions in their Greenland home, a group of Vikings took the reins of fate into their own hands. With incredible luck, skill and fortitude, they discovered lands filled with a profusion of wood, wild game and fertile land. In the sagas that grew from this discovery, the lands were given names that resonated with hope and promise. Almost 1000 years later, a husband and wife team united their talents. Intrigued by allusions in the ancient sagas to fabled Vinland, they considered the scholarship on Viking culture and technology; they studied maps and they researched intensively the prominent theories on Vinland's location. And finally their efforts bore fruit when a remote Newfoundland peninsula yielded up a soapstone spindle-whorl, a Viking ring pin, and what had to be the overgrown remnants of over a dozen Viking buildings.

Viking Discovery of America

Breakwater Books Ltd.

In two magnificent volumes [published separately under different ISBNs] Anne Stine and Helge Ingstad sum up their arduous and successful quest for early medieval Norse settlement in America. The discovery in 1960 of habitation remains at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland merely increased the already large total of possible Viking sites on the American coast. The excavations and analysis of finds since then have established beyond reasonable doubt that the eight or nine houses on this site, with their boat-houses, smithy and perhaps bath-house, were occupied by Norsemen, presumably from Greenland, in the early eleventh century. Anne Stine's account of the dig and finds occupies Volume I of The Norse Discovery of America. In Volume 2 Helge Ingstad reviews the literary evidence for medieval contacts between Europeans and America, and concludes that 'there can hardly be any doubt' that L'Anse aux Meadows is identical with Leif Eiriksson's settlement in Vinland. Many will disagree; not so much with the possibility that Leif was there, but with the assumption that his adventure in the sagas can be given any precise location. Nevertheless, a thorough discussion of the relevant texts and maps makes this a useful addition to the vast literature already published. (E. Christiansen, New College, Oxford)

The Norse Discovery of America

Oxford University Press

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Westward to Vinland: The Discovery of Pre-columbian Norse House-sites in North America

Westward to Vinland: The discovery of pre-Columbian Norse house-sites in North America

The Land of Feast and Famine

The Land of Feast and Famine

The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe

The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe

The Viking Discovery of America: The Excavation of a Norse Settlement in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland

Nunamuit: Among Alaska's Inland Eskimos

Viking Discovery of America

The Norse Discovery of America