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Grand Adventure: The Lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and Their Discovery of a Viking Settlement in North America 9780773549692
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A GRAND ADVENTURE
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
Translator’s Foreword
Preface
Introduction: The Assigned Task
1 Boyhood
2 The Land of Feast and Famine
3 East Greenland
4 Svalbard
5 Out West
6 The Apache Nation
7 Anne Stine
8 A Young Romantic
9 War Breaks Out
10 Liberation and Peace
11 Nunamiut
12 Still Together, Despite It All
13 Expedition to Southwest Greenland
14 We Find Vinland
15 Envy, Intrigue, and Further Expeditions
16 New Storms
17 Life after Vinland
18 Old Age
19 Legacy
Afterword
A Word of Thanks
Notes
Appendix: Publications in English by Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad
Index
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A GRAND ADVENTURE
A GRAND ADVENTURE The Lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and Their Discovery of a Viking Settlement in North America
Benedicte Ingstad Translated by J.K. Stenehjem
McGill-Queen’s Universi
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A riveting account of two people’s adventures, perseverance, and discoveries.
In 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of europeisk exploration and colonization of North America - a thousand-year-old Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. In A Grand Adventure, the Ingstads’ daughter Benedicte tells the story of their remarkable lives spent working together, sharing poignant details from her parents’ private letters, personal diaries, their dinner table conversations, and Benedicte’s own participation in her parents’ excavations.
Following young Helge Ingstad from his 1926 decision to abandon a successful law practice for North American expeditions through Canada’s Barren Lands, Alaska’s Anaktuvuk Pass, and the mountains of northern Mexico, the story recounts his governorship of Norwegian territories and marriage to Anne Stine Moe. The author then traces Helge and Anne Stine’s travels around the world, focusing in pa
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Ingstad, Benedicte. 2017. A Grand Adventure: The Lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and Their Discovery of a Viking Settlement in North America. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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Review of Ingstad, Benedicte. 2017. A Grand Adventure: The Lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and Their Discovery of a Viking Settlement in North America. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Pp. 455. Hardcover. B/w and colour photographs, maps, index. Translated by J. K. Stenehjem. ISBN 9780773549685.
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