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Inspired by the February-March issue of Canada’s History, which will explore evidence of Norse Viking settlement in Canada, as well as the Vikings: The Exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum, we’ve selected two titles for February’s Book of the Month: A Grand Adventure and The Land of Feast and Famine.
MQUP’s Book of the Month program offers 30% off a different new release or top seller each month. Simply enter the discount code MQUP30 at the checkout to receive 30% off your purchase.
In 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of European exploration and colonization of North America – a thousand-year-old Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.
In A Grand Adventure, the Ingstads’ daughter Benedicte tells the story of their remarkable lives spent working together, sharing poignant details from her parents’ private letters, personal diaries, their dinner table conversations, and Benedicte’s own participation in her parents’ excavations. Read more >
The Land of Feast and Famine, originally published in 1931 and re-released by McGill-Queen’s after more than forty years out-of-print, is a vivid depiction of Helge Ingstad’s adventures. He describes the native companions and fellow trappers with whom he shared both harsh and heart-warming experiences, and relates how he learned first-hand about beaver, caribou, wolf, and other wildlife. Read more >
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