Vikings: How a Norse Exile Mapped the American Continent (Leif Erikson, the Outlaw's Son, and the Voyage That Broke the Boundaries of the Medieval World)

Five hundred years before christopher columbus set sail, a lone wooden ship slipped out of the freezing fjords of greenland and into the uncharted void of the north atlantic. At the helm stood leif erikson, a master navigator caught between two colliding worlds.

The son of the notorious, bloodthirsty outlaw erik the red, leif inherited a legacy of violence and exile on the absolute edge of human civilization. But leif was not content to live in his father's shadow. Tasked by the powerful kin...