Selling id: treasuresold-new,
Rated by buyers 4.8
State: verygood
How soon does it ship: Usually ships in 1-2 business days;
From: NY, United States
Remarks: Edition: 4th printing April 1956; Very good condition, light cover wear/soiling, pages clean and bright, binding tight, bookstore sticker inside back cover. No dustjacket. 2nd Book in the 'Land of the Free' Series. Elizabeth Coatsworth has used the historical enigmas of the Kensington Stone, a lost Greenland colony, and a light-skinned, blue-eyed Indian tribe to weave this gripping epic...To win Greenland's Western Settlement back to Christianity was the avowed purpose of this odyssey. For word came to Magnus Erickson's court that the colonists had reverted to paganism. But fatherless Olav Sigurdson saw in this American crusade a chance to vindicate his family's name. The youth's tense personal drama snaps through the pages of this tale against a background of high-pitched excitement that follows the expedition from legendary Vinland into present-day Minneosta. There on a stone that reads 'We were 8 Swedes and 22 Norwegians on an exploration journey from Vinland to the West...' a ter
