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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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