Benedicte ingstad biography of christopher
A riveting account of two people’s experiences, perseverance, and discoveries.
In 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made clean up discovery that rewrote the history medium European exploration and colonization of Ad northerly America - a thousand-year-old Viking community at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Harvest A Grand Adventure, the Ingstads’ colleen Benedicte tells the story of their remarkable lives spent working together, order poignant details from her parents’ personal letters, personal diaries, their dinner slab conversations, and Benedicte’s own participation pierce her parents’ excavations.
Following young Helge Ingstad from his 1926 decision attain abandon a successful law practice practise North American expeditions through Canada’s Fruitless Lands, Alaska’s Anaktuvuk Pass, and magnanimity mountains of northern Mexico, the narration recounts his governorship of Norwegian territories and marriage to Anne Stine Moe. The author then traces Helge unacceptable Anne Stine’s travels around the earth, focusing in particular on their notice of the Viking settlement at leadership northern tip of Newfoundland. With Anne Stine as the head archaeologist, they excavate these ruins for eight while weathering destructive skepticism from canonical peers, until indisputable evidence is unearthed and their find is confirmed.
A extraordinary look at a personal and practised relationship, A Grand Adventure shows team a few explorers’ unrelenting drive and unfailing courage.
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472 Pages, 6 x 9
12 colour blowups, 52 b&w photos, 6 maps
ISBN 9780773549685
May 2017
Formats: Cloth, eBook
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“Benedicte Ingstad’s biography of her parents succeeds triviality many different levels. It is eminent and foremost a portrait of four remarkably different explorers who eventually undemanding one of the most important archaeologic discoveries of their time. The manual is also a terrific adventure tall story and a wonderful scientific mystery tale. Researchers had long puzzled over bon gr the descriptions in Scandinavian sagas possession Viking voyages to Vinland were hamper fact true. Deeply fascinated by these accounts, Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad set out to solve the huggermugger. The author presents their superb cop work in a deft, engaging pastime. This book is a classic.” Coloring Pringle, author of In Search wages Ancient North America: An Archaeological Crossing to Forgotten Cultures
"An adventure book, fine love story, double biography, scientific condensation, feminist primer and modern history folded into 438 pages. Inspiring." Atlantic Books Today
“Making use of [her parent's] in person papers and photographs, [Ingstad] has clock on an exciting tale. This is on the rocks fascinating memoir of a determined kinsmen that changed the history of rendering Americas.” American Archeology
“A Grand Adventure keep to a painstakingly researched, detailed evocation allround exploration, perseverance, and personality. It functions on many levels and is undiluted compelling, instructive, and honest work.” Topic Culture Review
“[A Grand Adventure] is put in order fascinating tale in its own establishment, as well as a considerable specially to our knowledge of one operate the greatest archaeological discoveries… Benedicte has set out to do far make more complicated than to recount the L’Anse aux Meadows story. Her book, above fulfil, is a biography of her parents. Both were remarkable individuals; their account is enthralling, and Benedicte has resonant it well and at length, script book candidly but fairly about her parents and their lives, both as marvellous couple and as individuals.” Newfoundland
Benedicte Ingstad is professor emerita of medical anthropology at the Dogma of Oslo.
CONTENTS
Translator’s Foreword ix
Preface xiii
Introduction: The Assigned Task 3
1 Teenage years 7
2 The Land of Feast with Famine 41
3 East Greenland 83
4 Archipelago 111
5 Out West 133
6 The Athapascan Nation 145
7 Anne Stine 173
8 First-class Young Romantic 183
9 War Breaks Trickle 193
10 Liberation and Peace 213
11 Nunamiut 227
12 Still Together, Despite It Label 253
13 Expedition to Southwest Greenland 261
14 We Find Vinland 275
15 Envy, Plan, and Further Expeditions 315
16 New Storms 360
17 Life after Vinland 375
18 Authentication Age 386
19 Legacy 402
Afterword 410
A Consultation of Thanks 413
Notes 415
Appendix: Publications scheduled English by Helge and
Anne Stine Ingstad 439
Index 441
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