Far Traveler（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named
Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the
New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby
before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after
archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one
believed that the details of Gudrids story were true. Then, in
2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this
pioneering womans last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland,
just where the sagas suggested it could be. Joining scientists
experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest
archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrids steps on land and in
the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spannedand
expandedthe bounds of the then-known world. She also sheds new
light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more
extraordinary than legend has painted her and illuminates the
reasons for its collapse.

　　NANCY MARIE BROWN is the author of A Good Horse Has No Color
and Mendel in the Kitchen. She lives in Vermont with her husband,
the writer Charles Fergus.

A note on the language
prologue Gudrid the Far-Traveler
chapter 1 At Sea
chapter 2 Ransacking the Past
chapter 3 A Very Stirring Woman
chapter 4 The Terror from the North
chapter 5 The Land-Taking
chapter 6 Eirik the Reds Green Land
chapter 7 Land of Wine or Walrus
chapter 8 The House of the Sagas
chapter 9 The Farm of Merry Noise
chapter 10 From Witch to Nun
acknowledgments
notes
sources
index