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Sea Road

Margaret Elphinstone
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11th century Iceland
11th century sea travel
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adventure novel
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birth at sea
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female protagonist
historical adventure
historical fiction
Icelandic history
norse gods
norse history
norse mythology
norse witch
sea adventure
sea storms
travel fiction
vikin women
Viking fiction
Viking history
Viking ships
Viking stories
Viking travel
Viking woman
Vikings in america
vineland
vinland

Product details

  • ISBN 9781841951768
  • Weight: 174g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Aug 2001
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A haunting, compelling historical novel, The Sea Road is a daring re-telling of the 11th-century Viking exploration of the North Atlantic from the viewpoint of one extraordinary woman. Gudrid lives at the remote edge of the known world, in a starkly beautiful landscape where the sea is the only connection to the shores beyond. It is a world where the old Norse gods are still invoked, even as Christianity gains favour, where the spirits of the dead roam the vast northern ice-fields, tormenting the living, and Viking explorers plunder foreign shores.

Taking the accidental discovery of North America as its focal point, Gudrid's narrative describes a multi-layered voyage into the unknown, all recounted with astonishing immediacy and rich atmospheric detail.
About Margaret Elphinstone
Margaret Elphinstone is the author of eight novels, including The Incomer (1987), A Sparrow's Flight (1989), Islanders (1994), The Sea Road (2000), Hy Brasil (2002), Voyageurs (2003) and Light (2006). She has also had published short stories, poetry and two books on organic gardening. Her next book, And Some There Be, will be published by Canongate in 2009. She lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of Strathclyde.

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