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Record #159386:

Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus: medieval European knowledge of America / James Robert Enterline.

Title: Erikson, Eskimos and Columbus: medieval European knowledge of America / James Robert Enterline.
Author(s): Enterline, James Robert.
Date: 2002.
Publisher: Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press
Abstract: Presents controversial thesis that apparent European knowledge of North America's existence was derived from Inuit and that Vinland Map records Norse contact with America and/or native Americans. In particular, suggests that details of Arctic coastline relate to America and not Asia as thought by some.
Keywords: 528.9(091) -- History of cartography.
91(091) -- Exploration, history.
93"04/14" -- Fifth to fifteenth centuries A.D.
V -- History.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*61) -- North Atlantic Ocean.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*3) : 912
ISBN: 080186660X
SPRI record no.: 159386

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