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Author Ingstad, Benedicte, author

Title 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
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017

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Contents Introduction : The assigned task -- Boyhood -- The land of feast and famine -- East Greenland -- Svalbard -- Out west -- The Apache nation -- Anne Stine -- A young romantic -- War breaks out -- liberation and peace -- Nunamiut -- Still together, despite it all -- Expedition to Southwest Greenland -- We find Vinland -- Envy, intrigue, and further expeditions -- New storms -- Life after Vinland -- Old age -- Legacy -- Afterward -- A word of thanks -- Appendix: Publications in English by Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad
Summary "In 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of European 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 parent's 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 particular on their discovery of the Viking settlement at the northern tip of Newfoundland. With Anne Stine as the head archaeologist, they excavate these ruins for eight years, while weathering destructive skepticism from academic peers, until indisputable evidence is unearthed and their find is confirmed. A remarkable look at a personal and professional relationship, A Grand Adventure shows two explorers' unrelenting drive and unfailing courage. Benedicte Ingstad's biography of her parents succeeds on many different levels. It is first and foremost a portrait of two remarkably different explorers who eventually made one of the most important archaeological discoveries of their time."-- Provided by publisher
Notes This English translation is a combined and condensed version of two original books in Norwegian: Eventyret: En Biografi om Helge Ingstad and Oppdagelsen: En Biografi om Anne Stine og Helge Ingstad
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Ingstad, Helge, 1899-2001.
Ingstad, Anne Stine, 1918-1997.
SUBJECT Ingstad, Anne Stine, 1918-1997 fast
Ingstad, Helge, 1899-2001 fast
Subject Archaeologists -- Norway -- Biography
Explorers -- Norway -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
Antiquities
Archaeologists
Explorers
Wikinger
Siedlung
Archäologische Stätte
SUBJECT L'Anse aux Meadows (N.L.) -- Antiquities
Subject Newfoundland and Labrador -- L'Anse aux Meadows
Norway
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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