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Topsail & Battleaxe: A voyage in the wake of the Vikings
Author(s): Tom Cunliffe (Author)
- Publisher: BAA Publishing
- Publication Date: February 1, 1988
- Language: English
- Print length: 195 pages
- ISBN-10: 1917128371
- ISBN-13: 9781917128377
Book Description
A Viking voyage to the New World in a 70-year-old classic boat, arctic weather and unique cast of characters, overseen by the ghost of Eirik the Red.
When Tom Cunliffe sails for America down the Norse Atlantic trail, his crew includes his four-year-old daughter, a soldier and a sheepshearer.
Guided by the ancient Viking sagas, their storm-tossed passage leads from Norway to the Faeroe Island, Iceland and the ice off Greenland’s Cape Farewell. There, the weather deals a deadly card.
Can they sail their venerable ship against the wind to Leif Eirikson’s fjord in Newfoundland? And will the spirits of the desperados they meet in the sagas let them do it?
