Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307390660 (0307390667)
Publish date: August 7th 2012
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Interesting history of the first from the med to reach Iceland and the far north
Sounded great - very boring
Blurberoonies - In the fourteenth century, so the story goes, two merchant brothers set out from Venice on a journey through the rough seas of the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New World a full century before Columbus.The story...