Can I read The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen on EtoBox?

The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen by B. F. DeCosta is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen about?

PREFACE.The aim of the present work is to place within the reach of the English reading historical student every portion of the Icelandic Sagas essentially relating to the Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen. These Sagas are left, in the main, to tell their own story; though, with the necessary introductions, notes have been added, either to remove misconceptions, to give information in regard to persons and places, or to show the identity of localities described.So long ago as the year 1838, a distinguished writer in the North American Review, in closing a valuable and appreciative article on the Sagas relating to America, said: "We trust that some zealous student of these subjects will be immediately found, who will put the Icelandic authorities into an English dress, and prepare them, with proper literary apparatus, for the perusal of the general reader."Nevertheless, no one in this country has really undertaken the task until now; for the dialogues of Joshua Toulmin Smith, however valuable they may have proved at the date of their publication, can by no means be regarded as constituting the strict historical work contemplated. The English treatise by Beamish was

Who reads The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen?

Author

B. F. DeCosta

Publisher

DigiCat

Published

2022

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities