Topsail and Battleaxe: A Voyage in the Wake of the Vikings

by Tom Cunliffe

Walter Kemsley (Illustrator)

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Tom Cunliffe and his wife, Ros, gathered their four-year-old daughter and a couple of friends and embark on an amazing expedition sailinh north from England to Norway, bashing their way westward from Norway to Iceland, then past Greenland to L'Anse aux Meadows in Northern Newfoundland in the 75 year-old pilot cutter Hirta. Their burning desire to retrace the explorations of the 10th century Vikings is told with gusto, and Cunliffe interweaves stories of Viking adventures with Hirta's progress, relating a great deal about ancient Viking history and showing that the VIking spirit still lives on in present-day Scandinavians
  • ISBN10 0850364604
  • ISBN13 9780850364606
  • Publish Date 1 November 2007 (first published 26 May 1988)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 February 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
  • Imprint Seafarer Books
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 182
  • Language English