The Farfarers: Before the Norse

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In this provocative bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach northern Canada. Mowat offers instead an unforgettable portrait of the Albans, a race originating from the island now known as Britain. Battered by repeated invasions from their aggressive neighbours—Celt, Roman and Norse—the Albans boarded seaworthy, skin-covered boats and fled west. Their search for safety, and for the massive walrus herds on which their survival depended, took them first to Iceland, then to Greenland, and, finally, to the land now known as Newfoundland and Labrador. Skillfully weaving together clues gathered from forty years of research, Mowat presents a fascinating account of a forgotten history. The Farfarers affirms Mowat’s status as one of Canada’s most powerful chroniclers.

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Weight 0.5 kg
Dimensions 3.3 × 12.8 × 20.3 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country

Canada

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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

528

Publisher

Year Published

2002-4-9

Imprint

ISBN 10

0385659261

About The Author

FARLEY MOWAT was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921. He served in World War II from 1940 until 1945, entering the army as a private and emerging with the rank of captain. He began writing for his living in 1949 after spending two years in the Arctic. Since 1949 he has lived in or visited almost every part of Canada and many other lands, including the distant regions of Siberia. He remains an inveterate traveller with a passion for remote places and peoples. He has forty-two books to his name, which have been published in translations in over fifty languages in more than sixty countries. They include such internationally known works as People of the Deer, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be, Never Cry Wolf, Westviking, The Boat That Wouldn’t Float, Sibir, A Whale for the Killing, The Snow Walker, And No Birds Sang, and Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey. His short stories and articles have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Maclean’s, Atlantic Monthly, and other magazines. He died in 2014.

"A spellbinding story . . . told by a master storyteller working at the top of his form. It is a saga that will enchant the reader." —The Globe and Mail"Provocative . . . a master storyteller." —The New York Times

Table Of Content

AcknowledgementsWhy and WhereforeChapter One: BeginningsPART ONE — THE OLD WORLDChapter Two: FarfarerChapter Three: TuskersChapter Four: PytheasChapter Five: Albans and CeltsChapter Six: ArmoricaChapter Seven: War in the NorthChapter Eight: PictlandiaChapter Nine: FetlarChapter Ten: Alba RebornChapter Eleven: Sons of DeathChapter Twelve: Fury of the NorthmenPART TWO — WORLDS TO THE WESTChapter Thirteen: TilliChapter Fourteen: SanctuaryChapter Fifteen: Arctic EldoradoChapter Sixteen: TunitChapter Seventeen: The Western GroundsChapter Eighteen: WestvikingChapter Nineteen: Land TakingChapter Twenty: CronaChapter Twenty-one: UngavaChapter Twenty-two: OkakPART THREE — ALBA-IN-THE-WESTChapter Twenty-three: The Great IslandChapter Twenty-four: A New JerusalemChapter Twenty-five: Erik RaudaChapter Twenty-six: Ari Goes to AlbaniaChapter Twenty-seven: Alba-in-the-WestChapter Twenty-eight: Searching for AlbaChapter Twenty-nine: Karlsefni and CompanyChapter Thirty: The Best of TimesChapter Thirty-one: Drogio and EstotilandChapter Thirty-two: GreenlandersChapter Thirty-three: JakatarChapter Thirty-four: The Country PathPostscriptNotesIndex

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