On The Viking Trail

Author : Don Lago
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587294839

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On the Viking Trail by Don Lago Pdf

When his father developed Alzheimer’s disease, Don Lago realized that the stories and traditions of his Swedish ancestors would be lost along with the rest of his father’s memories. Haunted by this inevitable tragedy, Lago set out to fight back against forgetting by researching and reclaiming his long-lost Scandinavian roots. Beginning his quest with a visit to his ancestral home of Gränna, Sweden, Lago explores all facets of Scandinavian America—Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Icelandic—along the way. He encounters Icelanders living in the Utah desert, a Titanic victim buried beneath a gigantic Swedish coffee pot in Iowa, an Arkansas town named after the famous Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, a real-life Legoland in southern California, and other unique remnants of America’s Scandinavian past. Visits to Sigurd Olson’s legendary cabin on the banks of Burntside Lake in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and Carl Sandburg’s birthplace in Galesburg, Illinois, further provide Lago with an acute sense of the Scandinavian values that so greatly influenced, and continue to influence, American society. More than just a travel memoir, On the Viking Trail places Scandinavian immigrants and their history within the wider sweep of American culture. Lago’s perceptive eye and amusing tales remind readers of all ethnic backgrounds that to truly appreciate America one must never forget its immigrant past.

Author : Adrian Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1774571595

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The Viking Trail by Adrian Payne Pdf

Adrian Payne spent more than fifty years guiding and hunting on the Great Northern Peninsula. The Vikings, who came to the shores of Newfoundland in the 11th Century, hunted caribou and trapped fur-bearing animals in this rugged, untamed wilderness. Generations later, outfitters like Adrian Payne believe they are walking in the footsteps of these legendary Norsemen, and here he pays homage to them with stories of adventure and daring rescue in the wild. When the Vikings overwintered in the New World, specifically in Newfoundland, they had truly found paradise. The ocean was full of cod and other species, and the rivers were full of salmon and trout. The forest was full of fur-bearing animals. There were shiploads of timber to take back to their homel

Author : Paul Carberry
Publisher : Zombies on the Rock
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1926903668

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Zombies on the Rock: The Viking Trail by Paul Carberry Pdf

Zombie hoards created by the evil Pharmakon company have taken over the world, including the one place that always thought it was safe from the calamities of the outside: the quiet, scenic shores of Newfoundland's west coast. In this horrifying second volume, the island survivors of the zombie massacres believe they are safe, settled away in a cabin far off the grid: but nothing can stop the spread of the undead, as the zombies make their way to the historic Viking Trail, where even more terror awaits....

Author : Joseph Chesley Burke
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Breakwater
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Canadian wit and humor (English) Newfoundland and Labrador
ISBN : 0920911463

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Laughs Along the Viking Trail by Joseph Chesley Burke Pdf

Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0618082484

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Last Places by Lawrence Millman Pdf

A classic of northern exploration and adventure, LAST PLACES is Lawrence Millman's marvelously told account of his journey along the ancient Viking sea routes that extend from Norway to Newfoundland. Traveling through landscapes of transcendent desolation, Millman wandered by way of the Shetland Islands, the Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador. His way was marked by surprising human encounters--with a convicted murderer in Reykjavik, an Inuit hermit in Greenland, an Icelandic guide who leads him to a place called Hell, and a Newfoundlander who warns him about the local variant of the Abominable Snowman. By turns earthy and lyrical, LAST PLACES is an ebullient celebration of the exotic North.

Author : Katie Broadhurst,Alexandra Fortin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Hiking
ISBN : 1927099587

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Hikes of Western Newfoundland by Katie Broadhurst,Alexandra Fortin Pdf

Hikes of Western Newfoundland is a full-colour guide to over 60 spectacular trails and trail networks from Port aux Basques to Twillingate (including Gros Morne National Park and the Northern Peninsula). Whether you're looking for an easy seaside walk to a scenic picnic spot or a spectacular multi-day trek to Newfoundland's highest peaks or anything in between this guide includes all the information you need for a successful journey. Vividly detailed hike descriptions include difficulty ratings, distances, trailhead GPS references, points of interest, photographs, and maps.

Author : Geoffrey Martin Hodgson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Vikings
ISBN : 0952185318

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The Viking Trail from Lancaster to Dent by Geoffrey Martin Hodgson Pdf

Author : Malcolm Buckley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798675031818

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The Viking Way by Malcolm Buckley Pdf

'A must for all who have loved and lost their best friend and loyal companion' The Viking Way is a challenging long distance footpath in the UK, and runs 147 miles from The Humber Bridge to Oakham in the County of Rutland. My pilgrimage along this amazing footpath in June 2019, spanned 12 consecutive days. The purpose of the walk was to assist in my 'coming to terms' with the loss of my Chocolate Labrador 'Denver' in June 2018. During the nine months following Denver's passing, I nearly left this life 3 times...by choice, the devastation his loss created took me down into the deepest, darkest depths of despair. The level of grief I experienced in losing Denver was absolute, and beyond anything I'd ever known. Carrying Denver's collar in my backpack, here is the record of the outer physical challenges I encountered on the trail, and to an equal degree the deeper inner battle of the journey through my complicated, unresolved grief. An emotional roller coaster that takes the reader into the depths of complicated grief, and yet the love, joy and happiness our dogs bring into our lives shines through.

Author : Neil Price
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465096992

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Children of Ash and Elm by Neil Price Pdf

The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.

Author : Eric Dregni
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452931371

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Vikings in the Attic by Eric Dregni Pdf

Growing up with Swedish and Norwegian grandparents with a dash of Danish thrown in for balance, Eric Dregni thought Scandinavians were perfectly normal. Who doesn’t enjoy a good, healthy salad (Jell-O packed with canned fruit, colored marshmallows, and pretzels) or perhaps some cod soaked in drain cleaner as the highlights of Christmas? Only later did it dawn on him that perhaps this was just a little strange, but by then it was far too late: he was hooked and a dyed-in-the-wool Scandinavian himself. But what does it actually mean to grow up Scandinavian-American or to live with these Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, Danes, and Icelanders among us? In Vikings in the Attic, Dregni tracks down and explores the significant—and quite often bizarre—historic sites, tales, and traditions of Scandinavia’s peculiar colony in the Midwest. It’s a legacy of the unique—collecting silver spoons, a suspicion of flashy clothing, shots of turpentine for the common cold, and a deep love of rhubarb pie—but also one of poor immigrants living in sod houses while their children attend college, the birth of the co-op movement, the Farmer–Labor party, and government agents spying on Scandinavian meetings hoping to nab a socialist or antiwar activist. For all the tales his grandparents told him, Dregni quickly discovers there are quite a few they neglected to mention, such as Swedish egg coffee, which includes the eggshell, and Lutheran latte, which is Swedish coffee with ice cream. Vikings in the Attic goes beyond the lefse, lutefisk, and lusekofter (lice jacket) sweaters to reveal the little-known tales that lie beneath the surface of Nordic America. Ultimately, Dregni ends up proving by example why generations of Scandinavian-Americans have come to love and cherish these tales and traditions so dearly. Well, almost all of them.* * See lutefisk.

Author : Barney Scout Mann
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781680513226

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Journeys North by Barney Scout Mann Pdf

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North, legendary trail angel, thru hiker, and former PCTA board member Barney Scout Mann spins a compelling tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to Canada. This ensemble story unfolds as these half-dozen hikers--including Barney and his wife, Sandy--trod north, slowly forming relationships and revealing their deepest secrets and aspirations. They face a once-in-a-generation drought and early severe winter storms that test their will in this bare-knuckled adventure. In fact, only a third of all the hikers who set out on the trail that year would finish. As the group approaches Canada, a storm rages. How will these very different hikers, ranging in age, gender, and background, respond to the hardship and suffering ahead of them? Can they all make the final 60-mile push through freezing temperatures, sleet, and snow, or will some reach their breaking point? Journeys North is a story of grit, compassion, and the relationships people forge when they strive toward a common goal.

Author : Bill Arnott
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781771604482

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Gone Viking by Bill Arnott Pdf

Bill Arnott guides readers on an epic literary odyssey following history's most feared and misunderstood voyageurs: the Vikings! To "go Viking" is to embark on an epic journey. For more than eight years, Bill Arnott journeyed throughout the northern hemisphere, discovering sites Scandinavian explorers raided, traded, and settled - finding Viking history in a wider swath of the planet than most anthropologists and historians ever imagined. With a small pack and weatherproof journal, Bill explores and writes with a journalist's eye, songwriter's prose, poet's perspective, and a comedian's take on everything else. Prepare yourself for an armchair adventure like no other! From Europe to Asia, the Mediterranean to the British Isles, through Scandinavia to Iceland, Greenland, and the New World, with further excursions around Thor Heyerdahl's Pacific, Roald Amundsen's Arctic, and Olaf Crowbone's stormy North Atlantic, Bill takes readers on a mythic personal adventure in real time - a present-day Viking quest.

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781551992426

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The Curse of the Viking Grave by Farley Mowat Pdf

The popular sequel to his award-winning Lost in the Barrens, this is Farley Mowat’s suspense-filled story of how Awasin, Jamie and Peetryuk, three adventure-prone boys, stumble upon a cache of Viking relics in an ancient tomb somewhere in the north of Canada. Packed with excitement and with little-known information about the customs of Viking explorers, this story of survival portrays the bond of youthful friendship and the wonders of a virtually unexplored land.

Author : DK Eyewitness
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780756668402

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Off the Tourist Trail by DK Eyewitness Pdf

Off the Tourist Trail is a guide to the world's unspoiled sights and experiences. It takes a hundred clichéd tourist destinations - everything from over-visited national parks to overrated museums - and reveal 1,000 fresh and fascinating alternative options. Written by a team of travel experts, and with a foreword by Bill Bryson, this book brings vibrant cities, enchanting sights, breathtaking natural wonders and unforgettable experiences to life with informative narrative and stunning photography. Choose your destination by theme - Ancient and Historical Sights, Festivals and Parties, Great Journeys, Architectural Marvels, Natural Wonders, Beaches, Sports and Activities, Art and Culture, and Cities - or simply flick through this sumptuous guide and be inspired. Practical advice on getting there and around, where to stay, where to eat and when to go, as well as useful 'Need to Know' facts, ensure that you get the most out of your time away. Less crowded, generally less expensive, and often more spectacular and rewarding, these lesser-known wonders of the world encourage readers to ditch the famous but well-worn choices, reminding them what real travel is all about - escaping the everyday and embracing the new. Vacations will never be the same again.

Author : A. J. Gillard
Publisher : Flanker Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1894463587

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Northern Newfoundland Cooking by A. J. Gillard Pdf

Ada J. Gillard grew up on the remote and rugged Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. She is the author of ten books in genres of romance, children's, poetry, and short story collection; self-published a cookbook called Can I Lick the Bowl?; and wrote another culinary companion called A Visual Guide to Table Settings and Table Manners. Ada J. Gillard's writings have garnered a Literary Excellence Award, a Creative Arts and Science Award, and ten Editor's Choice Awards for Poetry.