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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingstad, Benedicte, author.

Contributor:

Stenehjem, J. K, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeologists.

Ingstad, Helge, 1899-2001.

Ingstad, Helge.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ( 481 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal & Kingston, [Ontario] ; London, [England] ; Chicago, [Illinois] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

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 parents' 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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Translator’s Foreword

Preface

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

Afterword

A Word of Thanks

Notes

Publications in English by Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed June 15, 2017).

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780773549692

0773549692

9780773549708

0773549706