West Viking: The Ancient Norse in Greenland And North America, Mowat, Farley. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 494pp., with illustrations, maps, chronology, index.. Black cloth boards with and gilt and blue spine titles, mapped endpapers. In very good condition with a tiny closed tear to top edge of title page, tiny inked name to half title, light toning. Dustjacket has a taped-on plastic protective cover.
The Viking sagas speak of a land called Vinland, a place of abundant resources and possibilities. Nearly a thousand years after the events those tales describe, Farley Mowat sets out to decipher these ancient accounts and trace their path along the rugged coastlines of the North Atlantic. Mowat’s immersive storytelling brings Viking culture to life as he tells the story of Viking settlement in Vinland—now thought to include areas of Newfoundland and New Brunswick—five hundred years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot.
Farley McGill Mowat, OC (1921-2014), was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books.
