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The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call "Vinland the Good." The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.
As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise--he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history, a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.
The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a glacier from Iceland to the wastes of Greenland and from there to the place they call "Vinland the Good." The natives are a bronze-skinned race who have not yet discovered iron and still see themselves as part of nature.
As William T. Vollmann tells the converging stories of these two peoples--and of the Norsewomen Freydis and Gudrid, whose venomous rivalry brings frost into paradise--he creates a tour-de-force of speculative history, a vivid amalgam of Icelandic saga, Inuit creation myth, and contemporary travel writing that yields a new an utterly original vision of our continent and its past.
Empfohlen (von): | 18 |
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 1993 |
Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780140131963 |
ISBN-10: | 0140131965 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Vollmann, William T. |
Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 214 x 140 x 25 mm |
Von/Mit: | William T. Vollmann |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.08.1993 |
Gewicht: | 0,603 kg |
Empfohlen (von): | 18 |
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 1993 |
Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780140131963 |
ISBN-10: | 0140131965 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Vollmann, William T. |
Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 214 x 140 x 25 mm |
Von/Mit: | William T. Vollmann |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.08.1993 |
Gewicht: | 0,603 kg |